Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.

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.

At least, that's usually my reading of anything quantum computing related, and that seems to be the general gist of Microsoft's new quantum chip announcement. Microsoft says the new chip, the Microsoft Majorana 1,