IBM announced its next-generation Nighthawk r3 quantum processor, designed to execute 10,000 quantum operations across 520 qubits. The company said clients including E.ON, Algorithmiq and Q-CTRL have already run over 34 billion circuits on the current Nighthawk r2 chip, seeing speed gains up to 19 times faster than earlier IBM processors. IBM also said it plans to link two Nighthawk r3 processors into a single system exceeding 1,000 qubits in 2027.
newsroom.ibm.com
· 2026-11-11
IBM used its Quantum Developer's Conference to update its quantum computing roadmap, saying it still aims to build error-corrected quantum computers by 2029. The company is expanding its next-generation Nighthawk processor line with a version exceeding 500 programmable qubits, while scaling back plans to link multiple Nighthawk chips together from nine down to two, keeping total planned qubit counts for next year unchanged. IBM also highlighted performance gains from hardware-based qubit resets introduced in the September Nighthawk release.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-11-11
IBM has released Nighthawk r2, a 120-qubit quantum processor now live on the IBM Quantum Platform, featuring a new high-speed qubit reset architecture that runs over 100,000 circuits per second, roughly 25 times the throughput of IBM's current Heron processors. The chip pairs 120 qubits with 218 couplers and 120 reset elements, and has already run circuits with more than 7,500 gates accurately, hitting a milestone IBM had targeted for 2026.
ibm.com
· 2026-09-03
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