IBM has partnered with the Canadian province of Quebec to install what it says is Canada's first general purpose quantum computer. As part of a five-year agreement, IBM will install Quantum System One as part of the Quebec-IBM Discovery Accelerator project to address scientific and commercial challenges.
As a result of the joint work, IBM and the government of Quebec will develop the microelectronics business, including chip packaging, through the existing IBM facility in the province. They also plan to show how quantum and classical computers can work together to solve scientific problems and expect quantum AI to help discover new drugs and materials.
IBM did not say exactly when it will install its quantum computer in Canada.
This is the fifth partnership under Quantum One after similar agreements with Germany, Japan, South Korea and the United States. For example, Toyota attracted the Japanese startup QunaSys to search for new materials for car batteries. He uses a 27-qubit Q System One quantum computer based on superconducting qubits.
In November, IBM announced that it had succeeded in building a 127-qubit Eagle quantum processor. The company plans to release the Osprey processor with 433 qubits in 2022, and the Condor with 1,121 qubits in 2023.
The quantum computing company D-Wave operates in Canada. In 2020, it began deliveries of 5000-qubit Advantage quantum computers for business needs. Advantage is a hybrid calculator with classical and quantum computing platforms. The system breaks a large problem into parts for solving in classical and quantum ways.
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