Dec 4 Reuters International Business Machines on Monday showed a new quantum computing chip and machine that it hopes will serve as the building blocks of much larger systems a decade from now.

Researchers around the world are trying to perfect quantum computing, which relies on quantum mechanics to reach computing speeds far faster than classical siliconbased computers. The challenge has been to create quantum computers that are reliable enough in the real world to consistently beat conventional computers.

Microsoft, Alphabet39;s Google and China39;s Baidu, along with startups and nation states, are all racing to develop quantum machines.

As quantum researchers have made the machines big enough to outpace classical computers, they have struggled with data errors. On Monday, IBM showed what it says is a new way of connecting chips together inside machines and then connecting machines together which, when combined with a new errorcorrection code, could produce compelling quantum machines by 2033.

The first machine to use them is called Quantum System Two, which uses three Heron chips. Dario Gil, IBM39;s senior vice president and director of research, said that progress will appear fairly steady until 2029, when the full effect of the errorcorrection technologies come into play.

After that, the machines should see a sharp uptick in capabilities, similar to how AI systems that developed slowly for the past 15 years became vastly more sophisticated over the past year….