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Quantum · Timeline
Quantum progress, in order
Every hardware milestone, record, advantage claim, funding round and roadmap promise the site tracks, on one timeline, newest first. Read a lane down the page to see how it moves; don't read across lanes as a ranking.
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Lanes and years
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Records at a glanceLargest device in 5 lanes, logical-qubit record, funding, research volume
Largest device, per lane
- Neutral-atom1,180Atom Computing
- Superconducting1,121IBM
- Photonic216Xanadu
- Trapped-ion98Quantinuum
- Topological8Microsoft
Logical qubits, record
48logical qubits
QuEra 48 logical qubits · Apr 2024 · on the timeline
Funding caught, last 8 quarters
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
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Q3
Q4
66 rounds · $16.4B in USD figures
What the news corpus caught, not the market. Only rounds with a USD figure are counted.
Research volume
2,294arXiv quant-ph submissions in September 2026
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Promised next · 9
Roadmap targets whose year has not arrived yet, at the vendor's own date. They move into the timeline when the year passes, as shipped or as past their date.
- RoadmapNeutral-atomPromised for 2026
Atom Computing · Level-4 fault-tolerant quantum computer (with Microsoft)
- RoadmapTrapped-ionPromised for 2027
Quantinuum · Sol — universal fault-tolerant machine
- RoadmapPromised for 2027
PsiQuantum · 1-million-qubit photonic chip (Omega chipset)
- RoadmapTrapped-ionPromised for 2029
Quantinuum · Apollo — hundreds of logical qubits
- RoadmapSuperconductingPromised for 2029
IBM · Starling — 200 logical qubits, 100M gates
- RoadmapTrapped-ionPromised for 2030
IonQ · AQ 1,024 (algorithmic qubits), scale-out via networking
- RoadmapSuperconductingPromised for 2030
Google · Large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer
- RoadmapSuperconductingPromised for 2033
IBM · Blue Jay — 2,000 logical qubits, 1B gates
20263 events
- HardwareNeutral-atom
Infleqtion Sqale
80physical qubits
30 entangled logical qubits from 80 physical — first neutral-atom company at 30 logical qubits on a commercial system.
- HardwareTrapped-ion
Alpine Quantum Technologies LYNX
15physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconducting
Rigetti Cepheus-1-108Q
108physical qubits
12×9-qubit chiplet architecture; 99.1% median 2Q fidelity at general availability.
20256 events
- HardwareSuperconducting
IBM Nighthawk
120physical qubits
Commercial delivery: 218 tunable couplers, circuits up to ~5,000 two-qubit gates.
- HardwareTrapped-ionLane record
Quantinuum Helios
98physical qubits
First trapped-ion device with QV=2^20; 99.921% 2Q, 99.9975% 1Q fidelity.
- HardwareSuperconducting
Rigetti Ankaa-3
108physical qubits
- HardwareTrapped-ionLane record
IonQ Tempo
64physical qubits· 64 algorithmic qubits (AQ, IonQ's own metric)
Enterprise system targeting AQ 64.
- HardwareTopologicalLane record
Microsoft Majorana 1
8physical qubits
First topological-qubit chip claimed; 8 topological qubits announced.
IonQ · Tempo — AQ 64 (algorithmic qubits)
20249 events
- HardwareSuperconducting
USTC Zuchongzhi 3.0
105physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconducting
Google Willow
105physical qubits
First below-threshold surface-code error correction: logical error rate falls as code distance grows.
- HardwareNeutral-atom
Atom Computing 24 logical qubits
256physical qubits
24 entangled logical qubits on a neutral-atom device.
- HardwareSuperconducting
IBM Heron R2
156physical qubits
Updated Heron with lower crosstalk and larger circuit depth.
- HardwareNeutral-atom
Pasqal 1000-atom Orion
1,000atoms
- HardwarePhotonic
Xanadu Aurora
12physical qubits
Modular photonic architecture demo, path to fault tolerance.
- HardwareNeutral-atom
QuEra 48 logical qubits
280physical qubits
First >40 logical qubits demonstrated (Bluvstein et al., Nature).
- HardwareTrapped-ionLane record
Quantinuum H2-1
56physical qubits
First 56-qubit trapped-ion device; QV = 2^19.
- HardwareSuperconducting
CAS Xiaohong
504physical qubits
202314 events
- HardwareSuperconducting
Rigetti Ankaa-2
84physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconductingLane record
IBM Condor
1,121physical qubits
IBM's first >1000-qubit processor.
- HardwareSuperconducting
IBM Heron R1
133physical qubits
3–5× lower error rate than Eagle; the utility-scale successor.
- HardwareSuperconducting
IBM Heron
133physical qubits
- HardwareNeutral-atom
QuEra Aquila
256physical qubits
- HardwareNeutral-atomLane record
Atom Computing 1180-qubit prototype
1,180atoms
First >1000-atom quantum device (physical qubits).
- HardwareSuperconducting
IQM 20-qubit processor
20physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconducting
Rigetti Aspen-M-3
84physical qubits
- HardwareTrapped-ionLane record
IonQ Forte Enterprise
36physical qubits· 35 algorithmic qubits (AQ, IonQ's own metric)
- HardwareTrapped-ion
Quantinuum H2
32physical qubits
Race-track ion-trap architecture.
- HardwareSuperconducting
RIKEN
53physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconducting
Quantware Tenor
64physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconducting
Google Sycamore (upgrade)
70physical qubits
Random-circuit-sampling advantage extended vs classical.
- HardwareSuperconducting
Oxford Quantum Circuits OQC Toshiko
32physical qubits
202213 events
- HardwareSuperconductingLane record
IBM Osprey
433physical qubits
- HardwareNeutral-atomLane record
M Squared Lasers Maxwell
200physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconducting
Rigetti Aspen-M-2
80physical qubits
- HardwarePhotonicLane record
Xanadu Borealis
216physical qubits
216-mode programmable Gaussian boson sampler.
- HardwareTrapped-ionLane record
IonQ Forte
32physical qubits· 29 algorithmic qubits (AQ, IonQ's own metric)
First software-configurable ion-trap system; AQ 29.
- HardwareTrapped-ion
Quantinuum H1-1 (upgrade)
20physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconducting
Quantware Contralto
25physical qubits
- HardwareSuperconducting
Rigetti Aspen-M-1
80physical qubits