Cisco Scales Out Quantum Systems With A Quantum Network Switch

In 2023, IBM unveiled Condor, a quantum chip that passed
over the 1,000-qubit mark by reaching 1,121 superconducting qubits, and last
year Big Blue laid out a roadmap
that leads to Starling, which the venerable tech giant said will be the world’s first
large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum system that will include 100 million
quantum gates on 200 logical qubits.

IBM isn’t the only vendor or research group pushing to grow
the number of qubits in a system. Atom computing in 2023 announced a quantum
computer with more than 1,180 neutral atom qubits, and researchers at the
California Institute of Technology last year unveiled a neutral atom array of 6,100
qubits.

The number of qubits a system can hold is a key market along
the road to practical, commercial quantum computers, the kind that promise
significant advancements in everything from pharmaceuticals to financial
services. But to get there, those numbers will have to grow significantly.

“The only problem is that…