By Nextgov.com
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 06:00:00
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NEW YORK — IBM is continuing its journey to scaling fault-tolerant quantum computers to commercial use with two new product launches that enable fast and accurate computation within their qubit architectures.
IBM announced on Wednesday that its new quantum processing unit, Nighthawk, and larger Loon lattice architecture are both slated to advance quantum computing’s benefits at two separate layers of the technology stack.
“Our goal has always been to deliver fault-tolerant quantum computers, but to go on a path where we’re always delivering our best platform,” Jay Gambetta, IBM Fellow and director of IBM Research, told reporters Nov. 7 at the company’s Yorktown Heights facility.
Nighthawk, a computing chip anticipated to be ready for use by the end of this year, features 120 qubits connected via 218 next-generation tunable couplers. This increased connectivity between qubits supports seamless data processing to solve intricate calculations that demand up…
