As the forefront field of science and technology in the world today, the development of quantum technology is bringing about disruptive and revolutionary scientific discoveries and technological inventions, which will undoubtedly promote the leapfrog development of human society.
On December 4, 2023, IBM announced the launch of the third-generation quantum chip Heron and the IBM Quantum System 2 based on Heron, which is regarded as the world’s first modular practical quantum computer.
2023 Progress:
Countries and regions are further establishing their strategic positioning for quantum computing, with China, the US, Canada, Japan, and the EU continuing to lead the way, with more companies in the industry able to deliver real quantum computers, with US companies (e.g., Google, IBM) focusing more on engineering utility, and with Chinese companies Alibaba and Baidu withdrawing from quantum computing research and development. Canada’s D-wave has announced a strategy to enter gate circuit quantum computers, the leading U.S. quantum computer startups have successfully gone public, and new quantum computing software companies are active.
Further advances in the number of bits and performance of quantum computing: A team of researchers at Quantinuum is working on a new trap-ion quantum computer, Quantinuum System Model H2, in which they have been able to increase the number of quantum bits (from 20 to 32) without increasing the error rate, and all 32 quantum bits are globally entangled. In this computer, they could increase the number of quantum bits (from 20 to 32) without increasing the error rate, and all 32 bits were globally entangled. At the same time, H2 was launched with a record quantum volume of 65,536. IBM released the 133-qubit Heron Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) – IBM’s first mass-produced quantum processor – and managed to realize 1,000 Josephson junction quantum bits in its experimental chip Condor. Josephson junction quantum bits in its experimental chip Condor.
The quantum computing industry as a whole has undergone a significant change: the practicality of quantum computing has become stronger, including IBM, Google, and other giants, while strengthening the number of bits in quantum computing, they are focusing on the engineering practicality of quantum computing, and have increased their efforts in the direction of quantum error correction, and have made good progress, for example: IBM announced that it will open the practical quantum era through improved error mitigation and correction techniques; Google DQLR in 2023 has achieved a milestone breakthrough in the field of quantum error correction to dramatically improve quantum reliability. For example: IBM announced that it would open the practical quantum era through improved error mitigation and correction techniques; in 2023, a milestone breakthrough was achieved in the field of quantum error correction, and Google’s DQLR dramatically improved quantum reliability.
Breakthrough in Hybrid Quantum Computing and Quantum Computing Chip Stacking Architecture: NVIDIA released the first GPU-accelerated quantum computing system, NVIDIA DGX Quantum, combining the world’s most powerful accelerated computing platform, enabled by the NVIDIA Grace Hopper super chip and the CUDA Quantum open-source programming model, with the world’s most advanced quantum control platform, OPX (powered by Quantum Machines). NVIDIA DGX Quantum combines the world’s most powerful accelerated computing platform, enabled by the NVIDIA Grace Hopper super chip and the CUDA Quantum open programming model, with the world’s most advanced quantum control platform, OPX, powered by Quantum Machines.
2024 Trend: Start to quickly seize resources and market share, 2024 will be the first year of the construction of quantum computing ecology
The Quantum computing industry in the field of application engineering will continue the trend of pragmatic, based on the breakthroughs in engineering error correction in 2023, which means that the application of quantum computers in 2024 will be accelerated, but it is also clear that we can see that the real commercialization of quantum computers can only be delivered by the United States and Canada at present, and Japan can launch its commercial quantum computers in 2024, and the quantum computers will have a certain impact on the commercialization process. China with Alibaba Baidu and other commercial companies withdrawing from quantum computing research and development, the industry temporarily lacks the input and participation of giants, in the process of commercialization of quantum computers will have a certain impact, accordingly, some startups have already launched quantum computers, but in the promotion of the industrial ecosystem and the construction of the gap between North America and the company is obvious.
Quantum computing delivered in the form of cloud services will become mainstream, both in the form of physical quantum computers and quantum computing cloud services to provide sales, quantum computers through the past nearly three decades of exploration, these have begun to play its unique advantages in the field of industry and engineering, in the computing speed, security and other aspects of the breakthrough advantages, there is a trend to gradually replace the supercomputer in the field of biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, AI, large-scale computing and military aspects of quantum computing will present irreplaceable advantages. In the fields of biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, AI, large-scale computing and military quantum computing will present irreplaceable advantages.
As quantum computing becomes more commercially available, quantum computing software companies will grow further in 2024, with more quantum computing software companies emerging and gaining industry capital.
2024 will be the first year of quantum computing ecological construction, and the promotion and application cultivation of quantum computing will be accelerated. Quantum computing ecological construction is now far ahead of IBM, and there are already quantum computing alliances IBM Quantum Network, and Qiskit ecological development tools and platforms, which have gained a leading edge in the popularization of quantum computing and the cultivation of developers.
The IBM Quantum Network features more than 250 Fortune 500 companies, universities, labs, and startups with access to exclusive conferences and select channels.IBM Quantum Network members collaborate extensively and benefit from close working relationships with their in-house experts.
As required by the National Quantum Initiative Act and as part of the federal strategy for advancing quantum science and technology, NIST has supported the establishment of QED-C, which is administered by SRI International at Stanford, and operates as follows:
There are 148 QED-C members, accounting for 61.9% of the total, including technology giants such as Google, Microsoft, and IBM; military manufacturing giants such as Boeing, and Lockheed Martin; quantum startups such as Zapata, Rigetti, and IonQ; consulting services such as Deloitte, Boston Consulting Group; talent acquisition and service companies such as ZRG Partners, StrategicQC, etc. These different types of stakeholders together constitute the quantum industry ecosystem. Talent acquisition and service companies, these different types of stakeholders together form the quantum industry ecosystem.
2023 will see the launch of the Quantum Innovation Capital (QUIC) quantum computing network in Hamburg, Germany. 2024 will also be the year of the quantum computing ecosystem launch for Europe!
