Quantum computing startup QuEra has outlined plans for major hardware advances that it says will deliver useful machines hosted on Amazon Web Services starting in 2028.
The company announced its updated roadmap last week. It will skip further sales of current noisy intermediate-scale systems and move directly to a machine with over 10,000 physical qubits capable of supporting 256 error-corrected logical qubits.
QuEra executive Yuval Borger told Ars Technica that the firm made a strategic decision to stop selling NISQ systems. The planned 2028 system aims for error-free operations at 99.9999 percent, enabling millions of successful operations.
A follow-on machine targeted for 2029 would double the hardware qubits and support more than 1,000 logical qubits with even higher error resistance. The company noted that many remaining hurdles involve classical engineering tasks such as control electronics and real-time error correction rather than quantum physics itself.
