IBM increases the commercialization and performance of quantum computing toward 2029 by improving quantum error correction with the AMD chips.

IBM announced on Friday that it can run a key quantum computing technique on widely available Advanced Micro Devices processors, a step toward the commercialization of extremely powerful computers. The US-based firm and Google are competitors of Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) in the race to develop quantum computing.

Qubits are used by quantum computers to solve problems like the time-varying reactions of trillions of atoms that would take conventional computers thousands of years to solve. However, qubit mistakes may quickly outweigh the practical computational capacity of a quantum device. IBM stated in June that it had created an algorithm that can handle these kinds of mistakes and run alongside quantum processors. IBM will show that it can run those algorithms in real time on a particular kind of chip called a field programmable gate array, which is produced by AMD.

According to Jay Gambetta, the IBM vice president in charge of the company's quantum efforts, the research showed that IBM's algorithm is not only practical but also able to run on an AMD chip that is readily available and not incredibly expensive. Gambetta added that it's an important challenge to implement it and prove that it's truly ten times faster than what's necessary. IBM has a multi-year plan to build the Starling quantum computer by 2029. Gambetta also added that the algorithm work revealed on Friday was finished a year early.