IBM announced at its Quantum Developer Conference that it will offer access to a dual-processor Nighthawk quantum system in 2027, each housing over 500 programmable qubits. The company scaled back its multi-processor linking plan from nine systems to two but maintains the same total qubit target, while also highlighting hardware-based qubit reset improvements introduced in September.
Background
IBM has been a leading player in quantum computing research, with its Eagle, Osprey, and Condor processors paving the way toward fault-tolerant machines. The Nighthawk series represents the next step in their roadmap toward practical error-corrected quantum computing.
- Source
- Ars Technica
- Published
- Nov 12, 2026 at 12:33 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10