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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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Former IBM research campus in Silicon Valley set to be acquired by data center firm
Blackstart Digital acquiring IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose
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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 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 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 releases preliminary results for Q2 2026, sees shares drop by more than 20 percent
CEO Arvind Krishna writes letter to investors to explain "performance shortfall"
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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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DARPA to research modular sub-kelvin cryocoolers that don't use helium-3
Could help solve a critical quantum computing supply chain challenge
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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 signs Edge AI deal with Datavault AI
Companies to roll out AI services to Available Infrastructure micro data centers in New York and Philadelphia.
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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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Former IBM, HP, Ford, Xerox data centers for sale around Michigan and Kentucky
Facilities seeking new owners
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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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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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IBM Spyre AI accelerator available later this month
Used to power IBM z17, LinuxONE 5 systems, and Power11 servers
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AI research and product company Zyphra signs deal for large AMD MI300X cluster on IBM Cloud
Will be used to train "frontier" multimodal foundation models
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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