IBM has developed the world’s largest superconducting quantum computer, surpassing the size of existing Google and Chinese prototypes.
Previous devices have shown up to 60 superconducting qubits working together to solve challenges, but IBM’s new Eagle processor connects 127 nodes in order to achieve greater performance.
IBM’s superconducting quantum computer: 400-qubit processor in 2022
IBM has stated that it wants to showcase a 400-qubit processor in 2022 and break the 1000-qubit barrier the next year with a chip called Condor. It’s anticipated that an upper limit on expansion will be reached at that time, requiring quantum computer systems to be implemented via networks of those processors linked by fiber-optic connections.
