Quantum computing stocks were all the rage in 2024 with shares of some of the most popular companies rising 1,000% or more. 24/7 Wall St. Insights: Microsoft (MSFT) shook up the quantum computing world with the announcement it had created a new kind of matter that was not solid,

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Microsoft started going down this road nearly 20 years ago, and that research has now yielded what looks like a significant quantum-computing breakthrough. The Majorana 1 chip contains eight qubits, or quantum bits, far fewer than top-tier quantum computers currently in operation.