Atom Computing is the first to announce a 1,000+ qubit quantum computer

Atom Computing has announced a 1,180-qubit quantum computer that it has been testing internally and plans to make available to customers next year. The system uses a 35×35 grid offering 1,225 potential atom sites, and the company says it is the largest machine publicly acknowledged so far by qubit count. The error rate for individual operations is too high to run algorithms using the full qubit count reliably, so the company plans to run smaller algorithms in parallel to improve the chance of correct results. CTO Ben Bloom said the goal is hundreds of thousands to millions of qubits in a single system to enable quantum error correction.