IBM announced new quantum computing Eagle chip
IBM's new Eagle chip will allow quantum computers to outperform conventional computers. This is reported by Engadget.
According to company representatives, the announced Eagle processor has 127 qubits that can represent information in quantum form. Experts estimate that it will take more bits to model a chip than the atoms of all humans on the planet.
“Our first 127-qubit Eagle processor is available as a research system on the IBM Cloud for select members of the IBM Quantum Network.” – said the director of development of quantum hardware systems at IBM Jerry Chow. At the same time, the company's engineers emphasized that the new chip for quantum computing does not yet claim quantum superiority. However, it is believed that in the future it will be possible.
In 2022, IBM intends to release new chips with a record number of qubits. So, the Osprey model will work with 433 qubits, Condor – 1121 qubits.
Quantum superiority is the property of quantum computers to solve problems that classical computers cannot solve.
At the end of October, two groups of Chinese scientists said they have achieved undeniable quantum superiority with the help of new quantum devices. Both groups were led by physicist Jian-Wei Pan, and in both cases the goal was to calculate the probability of particle states at the output of quantum circuits.