{"id":246757,"date":"2026-11-06T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/ibm-quantinuum-and-intel-signal-a-new-phase-in-the-quantum-computing-race"},"modified":"2026-11-06T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:12:01","slug":"ibm-quantinuum-and-intel-signal-a-new-phase-in-the-quantum-computing-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/ibm-quantinuum-and-intel-signal-a-new-phase-in-the-quantum-computing-race","title":{"rendered":"IBM, Quantinuum and Intel signal a new phase in the quantum computing race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Announcements from IBM and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantinuum.com\/press-releases\/quantinuum-unveils-nexus-roadmap-to-deliver-the-first-developer-platform-designed-for-the-fault-tolerant-quantum-era\">Quantinuum<\/a> plus a recent acquisition by Intel show that the race to develop a quantum computer has shifted from focusing just on the qubits to integrating these computers with classical systems and software development platforms.<\/p>\n<p>To start with, IBM, AMD, and the DOE-funded Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are collaborating on a new research platform that pairs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/4092298\/ibm-readies-commercially-valuable-quantum-computer-technology.html\">IBM\u2019s 120-qubit Nighthawk quantum computer<\/a> with a classical computer in order to allow researchers to better explore quantum error correction, the organizations announced.<\/p>\n<p>This is a research platform rather than a commercial product, says <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/0rI9S0Huu1pexrwuu\/IDC%20analyst%20Heather%20West\">IDC analyst Heather West<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcements from IBM and Quantinuum plus a recent acquisition by Intel show that the race to develop a quantum computer has shifted from focusing just on the qubits to integrating these computers with classical systems and software development platforms. To start with, IBM, AMD, and the DOE-funded Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}