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IonQ has achieved a significant breakthrough by running a real-time quantum error correction decoder on a standard CPU, proving that specialized classical infrastructure is not required for fault-tolerant scaling. This validation of the Walking Cat architecture demonstrates that quantum systems can handle over 31.5 million operations with negligible latency, effectively removing a major historical bottleneck in practical quantum computing development.
IonQ decoder handles over 31.5 million quantum operations

IonQ’s new quantum error correction decoder, running on a standard CPU, successfully processed over 31.5 million quantum operations.
IonQ has demonstrated the first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder running on a single, standard CPU, a feat previously considered a major bottleneck in building practical quantum computers, the company says. The company evaluated the decoder across circuits simulating up to 408 logical…
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