News Technology IBM launches its most powerful computer

According to International Business Machines Corp, the Osprey, a 433-qubit machine with three times as many qubits as the Eagle machine unveiled in 2021, is the most potent quantum computer to date.

Although different quantum computer firms make varying claims about the power of their qubits, which can be manufactured in a variety of methods, the quantity of qubits, or quantum bits, is an indication of the capability of the quantum computer that uses quantum mechanics.

Experts say, in the future, quantum computers are anticipated to perform some calculations millions of times quicker than the current fastest supercomputers.

Dario Gil, IBM's director of research, said

IBM is still on track to launch a computer with over 1000 qubits but for further scaling was working on a new approach. "As we push the limits of the size of the Osprey chip that we're announcing, if you look at it, it's really big already. Next year, 1000 is going to be very big. So after that, we have been designing and engineering the whole architecture for quantum computing based on modularity," he said.