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IBM Plans to Commercialize a 58-Qubit Quantum Computer

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday May 28 2019, @06:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-a-wee-machine dept.

takyon writes:

IBM Plans to Commercialize 58-Qubit Quantum Computer

Norishige Morimoto, Director of IBM Research in Tokyo and global vice president at IBM, said that IBM intends to commercialize quantum computers within 3-5 years, when he expects quantum computers to outperform supercomputers in specific domains.

[...] The company's latest System Q One quantum computing system has a 20-qubit quantum processor with a quantum volume of 16. Quantum volume is a quantum computing performance metric IBM believes is more accurate than just using qubits alone. Quantum volume uses a combination of the number of qubits and error rate to determine the real-world performance of a quantum processor. The company is currently giving others free and paid access to its existing quantum computers.

IBM, Google and others have said before that to achieve quantum supremacy, a quantum computer needs at least 50 qubits. Morimoto said that IBM plans to launch a next-generation 58-qubit quantum computer that can outperform supercomputers and thus are suitable for commercialization.

However, don't expect to own one of these any time soon, as they will require a working environment with a temperature of -273 degrees Celsius to protect the qubits from interference. As such, IBM believes that this sort of quantum computer will work best as a companion to classical supercomputers.

Room temperature or bust.

Previously: IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer
IBM Announces its First Commercially Available Quantum Computer (20 qubits)
IBM's New Quantum Computer Will Have You Drooling

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 28 2019, @07:34PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 28 2019, @07:34PM (#848634)

    I think there is a world market for maybe five quantum computers.

    If quantum computers can be proven to simulate nuclear reactions, and break encryption, many governments will be lining up with truck-fulls of money.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by EvilSS on Tuesday May 28 2019, @08:17PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 28 2019, @08:17PM (#848649)
    Yea, and one government will go "Nope! You are not selling those to anyone but us!"

    Guess which one.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Tuesday May 28 2019, @11:07PM (2 children)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Tuesday May 28 2019, @11:07PM (#848689) Journal

    Yeah, I think that's pretty obvious. GP was quoting a former president of IBM (Thomas Watson) who famously said in the 1940s that there was a world market for maybe five computers...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @01:00AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @01:00AM (#848721)

      Ahhh, thanks for that. I was not familiar with that quote.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @03:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @03:46AM (#848763)

      And at the time, he was probably right.