On Tuesday IBM officially announced its plan to build the first large-scale, "fault-tolerant" quantum computer, i.e., one that is reliable enough to operate despite the error rate inherent in the quantum nature of its components.

Called IBM Quantum Starling, the device will be assembled in a new quantum data center in Poughkeepsie, New York, with delivery scheduled for 2029.

According to IBM, the device should be capable of performing up to 20,000 times more operations than current quantum computers.

In a statement, the group explains that a large-scale, error-tolerant quantum computer could perform hundreds of millions or even billions of operations, paving the way for major advances in areas such as drug development, the discovery of new materials, and chemistry.

To achieve such a level of performance, the computer will need to be based on an architecture capable of correcting enough errors to enable the reliable execution of complex algorithms.

A quantum computer is considered error-tolerant if it manages to produce the expected results despite disturbances caused by quantum decoherence, amongst other things.

IBM points out that there are several approaches to improving error tolerance, including the use of quantum error correction codes.


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