By Connor Hart
International Business Machines plans to build what it called the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029.
The computer, dubbed IBM Quantum Starling, will be built in a new data center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and have 20,000 times more operations than current quantum computers, the technology company said Tuesday.
Starling could run hundreds-of-millions to billions of operations, accelerating time and cost efficiencies in fields including drug development, materials discovery, chemistry and optimization, according to the company.
"IBM is charting the next frontier in quantum computing," Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said.
Quantum computers store information as quantum bits, also known as qubits. Clusters of qubits can then be error corrected in order to run large workloads without faults. IBM expects Starling to run 100 million quantum operations using 200 logical qubits, it said.
The company also on Tuesday introduced two new technical papers that it said help detail how it expects to build Starling. One further advances a new approach to reducing errors called "quantum low-density parity check" or qLDPC codes, while the other is a technique for identifying and correcting errors in real time using conventional computing.
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