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DARPA announces four companies advancing to final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM, and IonQ have all progressed to Stage C of the program
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IBM deploys z17 mainframe at Marist University to support AI research projects
Students can use the z17 to develop and test AI applications
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IBM and ETH Zurich collaborate on quantum computer to be hosted in Lugano, Switzerland
New system at Swiss National Supercomputing Center will be accessible to private firms and other higher education institutions
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IBM announces availability of its Nighthawk r2 quantum processor
Company claims the chip delivers improvements in quality and speed over Nighthawk r1
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IBM mainframe chip to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
Two worlds on one chip
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IBM successfully demonstrates connection and cooling of two cryogenic modules
Company says demo is important milestone on its path to deploying first fault-tolerant quantum computer
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IBM acquires HRL Laboratories to further boost quantum computing R&D efforts
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed
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IBM expands mainframe portfolio with new z17 and LinuxONE Systems offerings
Single frame and rack mount configurations help to address data center cost and space constraints, company said
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IBM details major chip breakthrough with new sub-1nm ‘nanostack’ 3D architecture
Company claims technology provides up to 50 percent more performance or 70 percent greater energy efficiency
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IBM announces five-year, $10bn quantum investment
Company says investment will help support its quantum roadmap beyond 2029
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US Dep’t of Commerce awards nine quantum computing companies $2bn in exchange for non-controlling equity stakes
Plus a round up of other quantum computing news
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IBM files for new quantum computing facility in Poughkeepsie, New York
Plans to expand campus with new 511,000 sq ft facility
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Iowa State University to shut down mainframe
Company switching to cloud-based system
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IBM, Arm team up to build ‘dual-architecture’ hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads
Pair have come a long way since their salad days of co-creating IoT starter kits
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IBM outlines blueprint for integrating quantum computers into supercomputing environments
Reference architecture maps path for solving scientific challenge no single compute approach is capable of
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Italian court suspends €47m quantum computing contract with IBM following tender process appeal
Unsuccessful bidder Tea Tek claims procedural process was unfair
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IBM unveils new FlashSystem offerings, can be co-managed by its AI agents, says company
Product portfolio will be available from March 6
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IBM launches first Quantum Nighthawk processor
Dubbed IBM_Miami, the QPU delivers the highest coherence times in the IBM Quantum fleet
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IBM partners with Cisco for development of distributed quantum network
Proof-of-concept expected to be delivered by 2030
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Wasabi launches storage offering for AI workloads and new region
Region launched in partnership with IBM Cloud
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IBM unveils Nighthawk quantum processor, claims it will deliver large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029
Company has also released a community tracker to verify quantum advantage claims
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DARPA announces 11 companies advancing to second stage of it Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Companies will now have their fault-tolerant quantum computing concepts thoroughly evaluated
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CERN installs IBM Diamondback tape library at Geneva data center
Research institute archived 50 PB of new data in August
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IBM reaps benefits from growing hyperscaler AI capabilities and capacity - CFO
Big Blue riding the AI "growth vector"
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Groq and IBM partner to boost delivery of agentic AI capabilities
IBM customers can now access GroqCloud via IBM watsonx Orchestrate
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First European deployment of IBM Quantum System Two arrives in Spain’s Basque Country
System will support the Basque government’s BasQ quantum initiative
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IBM Spyre AI accelerator available later this month
Used to power IBM z17, LinuxONE 5 systems, and Power11 servers
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IBM and AMD partner for development of quantum-centric supercomputing architecture
Project will see IBM integrate its quantum technology with AMD’s AI hardware offerings