Quantum Computing: From Labs to Commercial Reality as 2025 Marks International Year
The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, signifying a crucial transition of quantum computing from research laboratories to commercial applications. Major tech giants, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, are making remarkable strides in quantum error correction and scaling up qubit numbers.
IBM has recently unveiled plans to construct the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, named “Starling”, by 2029. This groundbreaking machine is projected to perform operations at a rate 20,000 times higher than today’s quantum computers. On the other hand, Microsoft, in collaboration with Atom Computing, has successfully created and entangled 24 logical qubits, heralding the onset of reliable quantum computing.
“We are at the advent of the reliable quantum computing era,” states Microsoft’s quantum team. This revolutionary technology holds the potential to transform fields like drug discovery, materials science, and energy storage. Quantum computers could potentially solve problems that would take classical supercomputers longer than the age of the universe to complete.
Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/01/14/2025-the-year-to-become-quantum-ready/