Overview

• Starling will house 200 logical qubits across about 100 interconnected modules in a new Poughkeepsie, New York data center.
• IBM’s low-density parity check algorithm uses 12 physical qubits per logical qubit and FPGA-based decoders for real-time error diagnosis.
• This year’s Loon chip demonstration will validate robust error-corrected data storage, followed by the Kookaburra module for computation next year.
• IBM expects Starling to execute up to 100 million consecutive logical operations accurately, a leap from current systems’ few thousand operations.
• The company will make Starling available via its cloud platform in 2029 as it competes with Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and startups in the quantum race.