International Business Machines Corp said on Wednesday it has launched its most powerful quantum computer ever called the Osprey, a 433-qubit machine with three times more qubits than the Eagle machine announced last year.
The number of qubits, or quantum bits, is an indication of the power of a quantum computer that uses quantum mechanics, although different quantum computer companies make different claims about the power of their qubits that can be built in many different ways. can go.
Quantum computers are expected to speed up a few calculations a day, millions of times faster than the fastest supercomputers today.
IBM’s research director Dario Gil said IBM is still on track to launch a computer with more than 1000 qubits, but was working on a new approach for further scaling.
“As we push the limit on the size of the Osprey chip that we’re announcing, if you look at it, it’s really big already. Next year, 1000 is going to be huge,” They said. “So after that, we are designing and engineering the whole architecture for quantum computing based on modularity.”
ibm The modular system is calling the Quantum System Two.
“Quantum System Two is the first truly modular quantum computing system so that you can continue to scale larger and larger systems over time,” Gill told Reuters. IBM Quantum Summit This week. “Modularity means that the chips themselves have to be interconnected.”
IBM said it is aiming to have the system online by the end of next year and that it will be the building block for “quantum-focused supercomputing” by connecting multiple quantum systems to two. IBM said it could combine three of these systems to make up to 16,632 qubits.
IBM has more than 20 quantum computers around the world, and customers can access them through the cloud.
This story has been published without modification in text from a wire agency feed.
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