Microsoft: We Have the Qubits You Want

"Five years from now, we will have a commercial quantum computer," says Holmdahl. A quantum computer hasn't yet been built, it is in the process of being prototyped. But Holmdahl, a 24-year Microsoft veteran who previously ran Microsoft's Xbox group, and Love, who has a PhD in quantum physics from Yale, and who has advised quantum startups and worked as a consultant at McKinsey, both believe Microsoft has come up with something very special. Microsoft's "qubit," the fundamental unit of computation in a quantum computer, is better than the competition, they say. "We believe we have the most stable qubit of anyone," Holmdahl tells me.