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Microsoft opens its Azure quantum computer cloud service to the public
Azure Quantum shows the growing commercial possibilities for the revolutionary form of computing.
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An ion chamber houses the brains of a Honeywell quantum computer.
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Microsoft's Azure Quantum service opened to the public on Monday, bringing the radically different computing technology to the world's second-biggest cloud computing service.
Azure Quantum includes quantum computers made by Honeywell and IonQ. These machines use a design called an ion trap that employs electrically charged atoms as qubits, the fundamental element used by quantum computers to store and process information. Microsoft plans to add another design by Quantum Circuits, whose qubits are supercooled electrical circuits, in the future.