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IBM Plans 1,040-Qubit System by 2027
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IBM announced the Nighthawk r3 processor on November 11, 2026, designed to execute 10,000 operations across 520 qubits. The company plans to link two such processors into a single 1,040-qubit system by 2027. Partners like E.ON and RIKEN already report significant speedups using current Nighthawk r2 hardware for energy and biology workloads.
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