What is IBM's Quantum centric Supercomputer?

Only a decade out, now 9 years 🌠 away. Quantum Inflection must indeed be near.

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Friends,

IBM is an interesting company. A few years ago they hyped IBM Watson in A.I., and it was such a disaster many called it a fraud. IBM’s artificial intelligence was supposed to transform industries and generate riches for the company. Neither has panned out. These days IBM is making waves in Quantum.

IBM have rehashed Watson in Watsonx.ai, Watsonx.data and Watsonx.governance - but seem to have totally missed out on the entire Generative A.I. movement. No, their game is a long game.

IBM’s track record of hyping its own secret weapons of the future and IP doesn’t have a particularly solid footing. Revenues have been declining, and yet it’s a big enough company to invest solid amounts of R&D cash into something, when it really wants to. International Business Machines has a market cap of almost $129 Billion.

At last year's IBM Quantum Summit, they announced a vision for 'quantum-centric supercomputing', which is:

"a modular computing architecture which enables scaling, combining quantum communication and computation to increase computational capacity, while employing hybrid cloud middleware to seamlessly integrate quantum and classical workflows."