IBM

Its predictions

Milestones

• DARPA moves Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ to its final quantum test stage (Oct 7, 2026)
• IBM and partners claim quantum advantage with built-in accuracy checks (Jul 30, 2026)
• IBM agrees to buy HRL Laboratories to add silicon-spin qubits (Jul 23, 2026)
• US offers $2 billion to nine quantum companies in exchange for equity stakes (May 21, 2026)
• IBM unveils its Nighthawk and Loon processors and backs a quantum advantage tracker (Nov 12, 2025)
• DARPA advances 11 companies to Stage B of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (Nov 6, 2025)
• HSBC and IBM report a quantum-aided gain in bond trading predictions (Sep 25, 2025)
• IBM unveils Condor, a 1,121-qubit chip, and the more accurate Heron (Dec 4, 2023)
• IBM reports useful results from a noisy 127-qubit chip before error correction (Jun 14, 2023)
• IBM unveils Osprey, a 433-qubit quantum processor (Nov 9, 2022)
• IBM unveils Eagle, a 127-qubit quantum processor (Nov 16, 2021)
• IBM publishes a hardware roadmap aiming for a 1,000-qubit chip by 2023 (Sep 15, 2020)
• IBM unveils Q System One, what it calls the first integrated quantum computing system (Jan 8, 2019)
• IBM releases Qiskit, an open-source toolkit for programming quantum computers (Mar 7, 2017)
• IBM puts a five-qubit quantum computer online for the public (May 4, 2016)
• IBM and Stanford run Shor's algorithm on a 7-qubit computer to factor 15 (Dec 20, 2001)
• David DiVincenzo lists the requirements for building a quantum computer (Feb 25, 2000)
• Loss and DiVincenzo propose qubits made from single electron spins (Jan 1, 1998)
• First quantum algorithms run on small NMR quantum computers (Jan 1998)
• Six researchers show how to teleport an unknown quantum state (Mar 29, 1993)
• First quantum cryptography experiment works over 30 centimeters (Oct 1989)
• Bennett and Brassard propose BB84, a way to share secret keys using photons (Dec 1984)
• Feynman proposes computers that run on quantum physics (May 1981)