IBM Quantum

IBM's quantum computing initiative focusing on superconducting qubits and quantum-centric supercomputers. - Scaling superconducting quantum systems

Quantum computers can already outperform classical supercomputers on specific tasks. Google's Willow chip solved a problem in five minutes that would take today's fastest machines 10 septillion years, and in October 2025 demonstrated the first verifiable quantum advantage with its Quantum Echoes algorithm—13,000 times faster than supercomputers. But scaling from today's 100-qubit systems to the million-qubit machines needed for real-world applications requires control hardware that doesn't exist yet. Current laser control systems are tabletop-sized, power-hungry, and impossible to replicate thousands of times over.

Updated Dec 28, 2025

Leading quantum computing developer with aggressive scaling roadmap toward fault-tolerant systems. - Targeting million-qubit systems by 2030

Quantum computers promise to revolutionize drug discovery, cryptography, and materials science—but only if they can scale from today's dozens of qubits to millions. The bottleneck isn't the qubits themselves. It's the massive control systems: each qubit needs laser beams precisely controlled by bulky modulators, and thousands of cables snaking from room temperature into refrigerators colder than deep space. A lab rack that controls 100 qubits would need an entire data center to control a million.

Updated Dec 28, 2025