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• [New] IBM plans a 4,158-qubit quantum system using its Kookaburra multi-chip processor. SQ Magazine
• [New] By 2029, IBM plans to launch Starling, a system some 20,000 times more capable than today's quantum machines. Time
• [New] IBM says it expects users to demonstrate quantum advantage - the point at which a quantum computer can solve a useful problem better than a conventional machine - by the end of 2026. Time
• [New] Late last year, IBM unveiled a 120-qubit chip which it hopes will demonstrate a quantum advantage for some tasks. SingularityHub
• [New] On one, tech giants such as IBM and Google are racing to build ever-larger quantum computers: IBM hopes to achieve a genuine advantage over classical computers in some special cases in 2026, and an even more powerful fault-tolerant system by 2029. SingularityHub
• Companies like IBM, Alphabet, and IonQ are pushing forward with technologies that could reshape sectors like cybersecurity and pharmaceuticals. Hayk Tepanyan
• IBM maintained its FY 2026 outlook for more than 5% constant currency revenue growth (consensus: revenue growth of 5.1%) and expects free cash flow to increase by $1.0 billion year-on-year. Futurum
• IBM and various divisions of its portfolio, including Confluent and Red Hat, have been investing in their partner programs to seize opportunities in AI, data streaming and hybrid cloud. World Wide Technology
• IBM is investing in quantum computing, with plans to deliver a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. Verdict
• IBM and Arm announced a new partnership Thursday that will attempt to bridge the gap between mainframe hardware, which an ever-diminishing number of people understand how to run, and Arm's hardware and software, which is growing very quickly inside cloud providers like AWS. Runtime
• IBM indicated that the timeline for autonomous security operations has accelerated materially, with capabilities originally forecasted for 2027-2028 arriving now. Forrester
• IBM Loon will validate a new architecture to implement and scale the components needed for practical, high-efficiency quantum error correction. semiwiki
• IBM Delivers Building Blocks Towards Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing In a parallel path, IBM is rapidly delivering milestones towards building the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. semiwiki
• By 2027, IBM plans to extend Qiskit with computational libraries in areas such as machine learning and optimization to better solve fundamental physical and chemistry challenges such as differential equations and Hamiltonian simulations. semiwiki
• By 2028, Nighthawk-based systems could support up to 15,000 two-qubit gates enabled by 1,000 or more connected qubits extended through long-range couplers first demonstrated on IBM experimental processors last year. semiwiki
• At the annual Quantum Developer Conference, IBM today unveiled fundamental progress on its path to delivering both quantum advantage by the end of 2026 and fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029. semiwiki
• IBM is the only named firm whose public roadmap commits to fault-tolerant quantum computing at a specific date - 2029 - with 200 logical qubits and 100 million gate operations. MindCast AI | Next Gen AI Law & Behavioral Economics
• Public roadmaps from leading labs (Google, IBM, Fujitsu/RIKEN) currently target scaling to thousands of physical qubits and achieving commercially relevant, error-corrected quantum computers by the end of the decade, roughly 2029-2030 [10]. Coinmonks
• Multiple hardware approaches are still in play-superconducting qubits (IBM, Google), trapped ions (IonQ, Quantinuum), photonic, neutral atoms (QuEra, Pasqal targeting 10,000 qubits by 2028). DEV Community

Last updated: 10 May 2026