IBM discloses plans to build first large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer

IBM unveiled its path to build IBM Starling, depicted in the rendering above. Starling will be the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum system.

IBM unveiled its path to build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, setting the stage for practical and scalable quantum computing.

Delivered by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York and is expected to perform 20,000 times more operations than today’s quantum computers.

To represent the state of an IBM Starling would require the memory of more than a quindecillion (10^48) of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

With Starling, users will be able to fully explore the complexity of its quantum states, which are beyond the limited properties able to be accessed by current quantum computers.

IBM, which already operates a large, global fleet of quantum computers, is releasing ...