"IBM Launches Its Most Powerful Quantum Computer With 433 qubits"

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) recently launched its most powerful quantum computer to date called the Osprey, a 433-qubit machine that has three times the number of qubits than its Eagle machine announced last year.  The number of qubits, or quantum bits, indicates the power of the quantum computer, which uses quantum mechanics.  Quantum computers are one day expected to speed up certain calculations millions of times faster than the fastest supercomputers today.  IBM's director of research, Dario Gil, said IBM is still on track to launch a computer with over 1000 qubits but for further scaling was working on a new approach.  Gil stated that as IBM pushes the limits of the size of the Osprey chip, they have been designing and engineering the whole architecture for quantum computing based on modularity.  IBM is calling the modular system Quantum System Two.  IBM noted that Quantum System Two is the first truly modular quantum computing system so that you can continue to scale to larger and larger systems over time.  Gil stated that modularity means the chips themselves are going to have to be interconnected to one another.  IBM noted that it is trying to have this system online by the end of next year, and it would be the building blocks for "quantum-centric supercomputing" by connecting multiple Quantum System Twos.  IBM noted that it could build a system with up to 16,632 qubits by linking three of these systems.  IBM currently has over 20 quantum computers worldwide, and customers can access them through the cloud.

Reuters reports: "IBM Launches Its Most Powerful Quantum Computer With 433 qubits"