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IBM, Lockheed Martin, and ETH Zurich have announced the creation of a quantum innovation center in Switzerland, which will host the country’s first IBM Quantum System Two by the end of 2026. The center will give Swiss universities, startups, and institutions access to quantum computing, training initiatives, and applied research.
IBM announced the availability of its Nighthawk r2 quantum processor through the IBM Quantum Platform, with 120 programmable qubits and more than 100,000 circuits per second, enabled by a fast, independent reset mechanism. The company says the system maintained Heron-level gate fidelity, reduced initialization error by approximately 25×, and ran circuits containing more than 7,500 gates accurately.