HPC News Bytes 20260623: Fault Tolerant Quantum by 2029?, Quantum Roadmaps, Metrics and M&A, RIKEN and Fujitsu Team on FugakuNEXT

A good late June morning to you! A healthy portion of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI has focused on quantum computing, here’s a quick (7:09) run-through, including ….

IBM Says on Course to Fault-Tolerant Quantum by 2029

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., June 10, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled what the company said is its path to build the first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, “setting the stage for practical and scalable quantum computing.” Scheduled for delivery by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New […]

IBM and Pasqal Expand Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Initiative

Yorktown Heights, New York, and Paris, Nov. 21, 2024 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Pasqal today announced an update to their intended collaboration to build new, integrated frameworks for quantum-centric supercomputing with Qiskit quantum software. The two companies will soon begin developing a unified programming model to facilitate seamless interoperability across different types of quantum computing hardware. […]

Q-CTRL Delivering New Services to IBM Quantum Network

Montréal, Sept. 16, 2024 – Quantum sofware company Q-CTRL today announced that it offers two services via IBM’s new Qiskit Functions Catalog to simplify application development and performance management services. Q-CTRL’s performance-management software, Fire Opal, improves the usability and capability of quantum computing by reducing errors and abstracting the details of how to operate hardware […]

Q-CTRL Reports Optimization Problem Records

London, June 5, 2024 – Quantum infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced published results that the company says demonstrate a boost of more than 4X in the size of an optimization problem that can be accurately solved, and show that a utility-scale IBM quantum computer can outperform competitive annealer and trapped ion technologies. “The recent […]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Unveils IBM Quantum System One

TROY, NY, April 5, 2024 — Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM unveiled the first IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI’s bicentennial celebration of 200 years of firsts, the university said IBM Quantum System One will enhance educational and research opportunities for itself and other academic institutions and organizations across […]

PINQ² and Hydro Québec Form Partnership Utilizing IBM Quantum

Montreal, March 25 th, 2024 — Hydro Québec is now a partner of the Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ²). As the administrator of Canada’s first IBM Quantum System One located at IBM ’s facility in Bromont, Quebec, PINQ² offers an innovative approach to computing for companies wishing to conduct research , […]

Korea Quantum Computing and IBM Collaborate

BUSAN, South Korea, Jan. 29, 2024 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Korea Quantum Computing (KQC) has engaged IBM to offer IBM’s AI software and infrastructure, as well as quantum computing services. KQC’s ecosystem of users will have access to IBM’s full stack solution for AI, including watsonx, an AI and data platform to train, tune […]

Algorithmiq in Quantum Utility Path Demonstration with IBM Quantum

Helsinki and Yorktown, Virginia December 4, 2023: Algorithmiq, a scaleup developing quantum algorithms for life sciences, said it has run one of the largest scale error mitigation experiments to date on IBM’s hardware. The company said this positions Algorithmiq and IBM to reach quantum utility for real world use cases. The experiment was run with Algorithmiq’s […]

IBM Quantum Debuts 133-Qubit Processor and New System

Today, at its annual IBM Quantum Summit in New York, the company debuted the 133-qubit Quantum Heron, the first in what IBM said will be a series of utility-scale quantum processors whose architecture has been engineered over the past four years. IBM said the processor “deliver(s) IBM’s highest performance metrics and lowest error rates….”