{"id":41261,"date":"2020-08-21T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=0802aa5984174e1c1a7faf95ff69af90"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:26:03","slug":"ibm-hits-new-quantum-computing-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-hits-new-quantum-computing-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM hits new quantum computing milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/carly-page\">Carly Page<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">21 Aug, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p>IBM has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2020-08-20-IBM-Delivers-Its-Highest-Quantum-Volume-to-Date-Expanding-the-Computational-Power-of-its-IBM-Cloud-Accessible-Quantum-Computers\" >announced<\/a>\u00a0that it&#8217;s reached a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/technology\/31818\/what-is-quantum-computing\" >quantum computing<\/a>\u00a0milestone, hitting its highest quantum volume to date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Using an upgraded\u00a027-qubit\u00a0client system deployed within the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/business-intelligence\/28262\/ibm-q-opens-up-quantum-computing-to-businesses\" >IBM Q<\/a>\u00a0Network, the company achieved a quantum volume of 64. The company&#8217;s\u00a0previous milestone,\u00a0announced in January, was 32, which means IBM has successfully doubled its quantum volume every year for three years running.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--wysiwyg_see-related_plugin--><\/p>\n<p>\nQuantum volume measures the length and complexity of circuits; the higher the volume, the higher the potential for exploring solutions to real-world problems across industry, government, and research.<\/p>\n<p>IBM achieved the latest performance increase by making enhancements to one of the three 27-qubit Falcon chips it announced earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it used\u00a0\u201chardware-aware\u201d optimisations that unlock more performance from the Falcon chip\u2019s circuits. This\u00a0includes software improvements to Qiskit, IBM\u2019s compiler for running code on its quantum systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These\u00a0techniques\u00a0will be available in\u00a0upcoming releases\u00a0and improvements to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/cloud\/356002\/ibm-cloud-suffers-major-outage\" >IBM Cloud<\/a>\u00a0software services and\u00a0the\u00a0cross-platform\u00a0open\u00a0source\u00a0software development\u00a0kit (SDK)\u00a0Qiskit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are always finding new ways to push the limits of our systems so that we can run larger, more complex quantum circuits and more quickly achieve a Quantum Advantage,&#8221; said\u00a0Jay Gambetta, IBM fellow and vice president at IBM Quantum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IBM&#8217;s full-stack approach gives an innovative avenue to develop hardware-aware applications, algorithms and circuits, all running on the most extensive and powerful quantum hardware fleet in the industry.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>in the last four years, IBM has made 28 quantum computers with eight of them being developed in 2020\u00a0alone.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Carly Page<\/p>\n<p>        21 Aug, 2020    <\/p>\n<p>      IBM has\u00a0announced\u00a0that it&#8217;s reached a new\u00a0quantum computing\u00a0milestone, hitting its highest quantum volume to date.\u00a0<br \/>\nUsing an upgraded\u00a027-qubit\u00a0client system deployed within the\u00a0IBM Q\u00a0Network, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41262,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41261\/revisions\/41262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}