IBM Research

IBM Research is the central research division of IBM and runs the company's quantum computing program out of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Its hardware approach is based on superconducting transmon qubits fabricated on silicon, delivered to outside users through the cloud-based IBM Quantum service; processor generations include the 127-qubit Eagle, the 133-qubit Heron, and the 1,121-qubit Condor. It is one of the largest industrial quantum efforts alongside Google and Microsoft, and its published work has concentrated on scaling qubit counts, error mitigation for noisy devices, and more recently on error-corrected logical qubits.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 16 October 2026

Headquarters: Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
Founded: 1945
Status: Public

superconducting error correction algorithms software

Coverage

Quantum Computing Report15 October 2026

IBM Research Automates QEC Decoder Chip Design Using Open AI Agent Factories at 11.5x Lower Inference Cost

IBM Research has built an AI agent factory that automates the architectural design of quantum error correction decoder chips, using autonomous multi-agent search and open-weight models. The system reports up to 204x hardware speedup and an 11.5x reduction in AI inference cost, making decoder chip design more economically viable for fault-tolerant quantum systems.

OutlookPlausible

Within two years, this could enable custom QEC decoder chips to be designed and fabricated on the timescale of a single research cycle, allowing experimental fault-tolerant systems to test real-time decoding for larger code distances.

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