IBM maps out Nighthawk r3: 520 programmable qubits and 10,000 operations, with a plan to link two chips past 1,000 qubits in 2027 ↗
On November 11, IBM announced plans for Nighthawk r3, a next-generation quantum processor designed to run 10,000 quantum operations accurately across 520 programmable qubits, and to link two of those chips into a system with more than 1,000 qubits in 2027. This is a roadmap; the release gave no availability date for r3. IBM also said partners including E.ON, Algorithmiq, and Q-CTRL have already run more than 34 billion circuits on the current Nighthawk r2, reporting speedups of up to 19 times. Those figures come from IBM and its partners.