Microsoft has developed the world’s first quantum computing chip called Majorana 1. The company says quantum computers are now just years away, not decades.

Microsoft says it's made a major breakthrough in quantum computing capabilities with the Majorana 1, its first quantum chip, and the first of its kind to be powered by what are called topological qubits.

Microsoft introduces the breakthrough Majorana 1 quantum chip expected to solve "meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.”