IBM Delivers New Quantum Package

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IBM Delivers New Quantum Processors, Software, and Algorithm Breakthroughs on Path to Advantage and Fault Tolerance • IBM Quantum Nighthawk: processor built for quantum advantage will deliver circuits with 30 percent more complexity • Together with partners, IBM contributes three experiments to open, community quantum advantage tracker, with results comparable to leading classical simulation methods• New Qiskit capabilities show 24 percent increase in accuracy with dynamic circuits and decreased cost of extracting accurate results by over 100 times with HPC-powered error mitigation. • IBM Quantum Loon demonstrates all hardware elements of fault-tolerant quantum computing• Efficient quantum error correction decoding achieved with 10 times speedup over current leading approach (1)– completed one year ahead of schedule • IBM doubles development speed with shift to 300mm wafer fabrication facility while boosting the physical complexity of quantum chips by 10 times for fault-tolerant error correction roadmap Nov 12, 2025 YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York – November 12, 2025 – At the annual Quantum Developer Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled fundamental progress on its path to delivering both quantum advantage by the end of 2026 and fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029. “There are many pillars to bringing truly useful quantum computing to the world,” said Jay Gambetta, Director of IBM Research and IBM Fellow. “We believe that IBM is the only company that is positioned to rapidly invent and scale quantum software, hardware, fabrication, and error correction to unlock transformative applications. We are thrilled to announce many of these milestones today.” IBM Quantum Computers Built to Scale Advantage IBM is unveiling IBM Quantum Nighthawk, its most advanced quantum processor yet and designed with an architecture to complement high-performing quantum software to deliver quantum advantage next year: the point at which a quantum computer can solve a problem better than...