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IQM 20-qubit system
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SuperconductingIQM's newest device on record is IQM 20-qubit processor, 20 physical qubits, announced Oct 2023.
Latest activity on record: Oct 17, 2026
Published figures
Each figure names its device and links to where it was published.
Qubit count over time
2 announced devices, by announcement date. Records such as logical-qubit demonstrations are listed below, not plotted. The line traces the largest device to date.
Every milestone on record
2 entries, newest first.
| Date | Device |
|---|---|
| Oct 2023 | IQM 20-qubit processor20 physical qubitsWikipediaSource — IQM 20-qubit processor |
| Nov 2021 | IQM 5-qubit processor5 physical qubitsWikipediaSource — IQM 5-qubit processor |
curated: from the code-reviewed milestone list, sourced to the vendor · reviewed: a news-surfaced milestone an editor published · Wikipedia: synced from Wikipedia's list of quantum processors.
System benchmarks on real hardware
metriq-gym runs from the Unitary Foundation's metriq-data dataset, newest run per device. Each benchmark has its own direction; scores do not compare across benchmarks.
higher is better · qubits
- IQM Emerald
- 54Oct 19, 2025
- IQM Garnet
- 20Mar 2, 2026
lower is better · eplg
- IQM Garnet
- 9.18e-3Jan 16, 2026
higher is better · approx-ratio
- IQM Emerald
- 0.5076Nov 19, 2025
- IQM Garnet
- 0.1432Jan 9, 2026
higher is better · polarization
- IQM Garnet
- 3.85e-4Aug 7, 2026
- IQM Emerald
- 0.00e+0Aug 7, 2026
higher is better · accuracy
- IQM Emerald
- 1.00e-3Jul 24, 2026
- IQM Garnet
- 0.00e+0Jul 23, 2026
higher is better · expectation
- IQM Garnet
- 0.7595Sep 9, 2026
- IQM Emerald
- 0.6646Oct 22, 2025
Recent headlines
- Open Quantum Launches Native Qrisp Integration for High-Level QPU Execution Across IonQ, Rigetti, IQM, and AQT HardwareQuantum Computing Report · Oct 17, 2026
- Swinburne and IQM Partner on Quantum Research and Workforce DevelopmentThe Quantum Insider · Oct 13, 2026
- Why does quantum matter? IQM’s marketing asks the questionQuantum Zeitgeist · Oct 13, 2026
Not on record for IQM yet: a published roadmap, a live fleet API, funding rounds.
Quantum · Timeline
IQM, in order
Everything the site tracks for IQM — hardware, records, advantage claims it took part in, funding and its own roadmap — newest first.
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Lanes and years
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What the units count
- Physical qubits
- The hardware qubits on the device, before any error correction.
- Atoms
- Neutral-atom vendors count the atoms trapped in the array; each one can act as a physical qubit.
- Algorithmic qubits (AQ)
- IonQ's own system-level metric: the widest circuit at which a fixed set of benchmark algorithms still succeeds. No other vendor publishes it.
- Logical qubits
- Error-corrected qubits, each encoded across many physical ones. The codes differ between demonstrations, so two records rarely mean the same thing.
- Quantum volume
- A system-level score (a power of two) from square random circuits. Vendors run it under their own assumptions.
- Two-qubit gate fidelity
- How often a two-qubit gate does what it should, as a percent. The cards show the best published figure, with its device and source.