This is interesting. Tech wise also sounds like an entirely different approach than IBM or Google had in my the last few years. Don't know what to think of it.

Interesting choice to name their chip Majorana.

Majorana Fermions have not conclusively been observed yet. To add to the irony, Microsoft got a paper claiming they did observe them retracted. Leo P. Kouwenhoven works at a Microsoft lab in the Netherlands.

The irony will be complete if their claims of achieving such quantum computing breakthrough within years turn out to be similarly inconclusive~~

Exciting times ahead!