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Big Blue & Quantum Computing

Observant1
edited December 10 in Other Investing
Key Points

• IBM’s Quantum System Two is its most advanced quantum computer, utilizing quantum mechanics
for complex computations beyond conventional systems.

• IBM has deployed 85 quantum systems to over 300 organizations, including 25 systems with more
than 100 logical qubits, outpacing competitors like Google.

• IBM aims for a fault-tolerant supercomputer, IBM Quantum Starling, by 2029, targeting 100 million
quantum operations with 200 logical qubits.

"Big Blue has been working on quantum technology for decades.
It has shipped more quantum computers than any other company,
and it now has major breakthroughs in its sights.
Equally important, its array of other businesses—cloud computing, IT consulting, artificial intelligence,
and various hardware and software products—provides valuable ballast that can keep the company
on course even if quantum doesn’t pan out."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ibm-once-dominated-computing-quantum-technology-could-put-it-on-top-again/ar-AA1S3cGH

Comments

  • WABACWABAC
    Thanks for the link. Interesting read.
  • AnnaAnna
    attaboy Poughkeepsie!
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    Really nice to see IBM surviving from punchcards to quantum bits. When I was an air traffic controller back in the early 70's we were still using IBM punchcards.
  • a2z

    am neither friend nor foe of ibm.
    when was the last time they exploited a technology edge into durable profits?
    given the enthusiasm for capital failure in quantum since 2023, not to mention google and such also playing around, the odds seem good that a few competitors may eventually have viable or superior tech.

    more interestingly, quantum software ventures are poised, again, to be a capital light subsector. i believe the largest was split from honeywell. some already have productized 'quantum-resistant' security options ahead of gov standards. others have deployed hybrid products (anything not completely reliant on general purpose quantum compute HW).
  • Observant1
    edited December 11
    Old_Joe said:

    Really nice to see IBM surviving from punchcards to quantum bits.
    When I was an air traffic controller back in the early 70's we were still using IBM punchcards.

    I worked at a large insurance company on the East Coast in the mid-80s to early-90s.
    The company owned/used several IBM mainframe systems.
    They also had an IBM "4331" mid-range system which used a punch card reader for input.
    Punch cards were almost obsolete by this time.
    There were a few old programs on punch cards which were difficult (or not cost-feasible)
    to convert to magnetic tape.
  • Sven
    NASA should benefit from the fast computing it provides, and it is likely to be in early phase of their research.

    Before computers NASA relies on slide rule for complex calculation. How the science has advanced ?
  • yogibearbullyogibearbull
    Don't knock slide rule. It required discovery of logarithms & mechanical ingenuity. Slide rule lasted 350 years. I still have mine in a drawer.
  • racqueteer
    To my way of thinking, the slide rule was often a superior instrument for student understanding; in that one had to be proficient with both exponential notation and estimation to use it effectively. I got entirely too many complaints of, "but that's what the calculator gave me" from my students!
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