Quantinuum, the $10 billion firm that’s become one of the biggest players in quantum computing, unveiled its latest computer Wednesday.
The Helios machine represents an important leap in terms of scale and ability, the company said, and will help customers like JPMorgan Chase and Nvidia learn more about the business problems quantum technology could solve.
“That’s why we call it Helios, because Helios is the sun, and we said this is dawning the commercial adoption phase of quantum computing in industry,” said Quantinuum President and Chief Executive Rajeeb Hazra.
One common metric for measuring quantum computers is the number of so-called qubits, or quantum versions of computer bits. But qubits can be delicate and error prone. It typically requires many physical qubits to create what the industry calls one “logical” qubit, or a qubit capable of delivering results that are more reliable and more consistent, which some argue can be a better indicator of a computer’s abilities.
Helios contains 98 physical qubits, and from those can deliver 48 logical error-corrected qubits.
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