IBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced what it claims to be a significant breakthrough in quantum computing architecture today, solving the scientific obstacles to error correction. The company said that it is now on the path to building the world’s first scalable, error-corrected quantum computer by 2029.
“We’ve cracked the code to quantum error correction,” said Jay Gambetta, vice president at IBM Quantum, at a press conference on Monday.
The new quantum computer, named IBM Quantum Starling, will be built at the IBM quantum computing data center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and will have 200 logical qubits, which translates to about 20,000 physical qubits.