On Nov 11, IBM announced Quantum Nighthawk r3, designed for 10,000 operations on 520 qubits, with a 1,040-qubit system planned for 2027.
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IBM announces Quantum Nighthawk r3, designed for 10,000 operations on 520 qubits, with a 1,040-qubit system planned for 2027
IBM Newsroom published this on Nov 11, 2026 (source: newsroom.ibm.com).
IBM's 11 November 2026 newsroom post says Nighthawk r3 will be built to execute 10,000 quantum operations across 520 programmable qubits, with 2,034 physical qubits, and that in 2027 IBM plans to link two r3 processors into a 1,040-qubit system. IBM also said clients and partners have run more than 34 billion circuits on Nighthawk r2, reporting speedups of up to 19x, and that the IBM Quantum Platform now unites quantum and classical computing in one environment.
Source: IBM Newsroom
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