Overview

• The roadmap starts with Quantum Loon in 2025, advances to the modular Kookaburra processor in 2026, and links two Kookaburra modules into the Cockatoo system by 2027 to validate scalable fault tolerance.
• Starling will combine around 200 logical qubits built from superconducting chips, using qLDPC codes to reduce physical qubit overhead by roughly 90 percent.
• Once operational, the system is expected to execute 100 million quantum operations, offering a roughly 20,000-fold increase in processing power over today’s machines.
• A dedicated IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, will host Starling and set the stage for Blue Jay in 2033, which aims for 2,000 logical qubits and 1 billion operations.
• IBM is supporting its quantum roadmap with a $150 billion US investment over five years—including $30 billion for R&D—and has released technical papers detailing real-time decoding and architecture design.