{"id":8894,"date":"2026-09-28T23:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=8894"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:52:35","slug":"quantum-computing-roadmaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing roadmaps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to make notes about the announcements done by main companies in this area, so I can review them in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The table below covers 10 listed quantum companies and the technical milestones they have publicly committed to for roughly Q4 2026 through 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>#<\/th><th>Company (ticker)<\/th><th>Late 2026<\/th><th>2027<\/th><th>2028<\/th><th>2029+<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1<\/td><td><strong>IonQ<\/strong> (IONQ)<\/td><td>Combined IonQ and SkyWater 2026 revenue guidance of $450\u2013460M. SkyWater is already producing &#8220;Superion&#8221; chips.<\/td><td>First 256-qubit Superion customer deployments (early 2027).<\/td><td>200,000-qubit QPUs (8,000 logical qubits) start functional testing.<\/td><td>Roadmap to about 2M qubits by 2030.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td><strong>Rigetti<\/strong> (RGTI)<\/td><td>108-qubit Cepheus-1 is generally available. The published roadmap targeted a 150+ qubit system at 99.7% fidelity by end of 2026, and the company says it will update the roadmap later this year.<\/td><td>The 2025 roadmap targeted 1,000+ qubits at 99.8% fidelity by end of 2027. The Q2 2026 release describes about 1,000 qubits at about 99.9% fidelity and gates under 50 ns over roughly three years. HPE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center delivery is expected in 2027.<\/td><td>Continued scaling toward the 1,000-qubit target.<\/td><td>Up to $100M UK investment for system deployments.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td><strong>D-Wave<\/strong> (QBTS)<\/td><td>17-physical-qubit gate-model system (logical error rate 2x lower than physical).<\/td><td>49 physical qubits (20x error reduction).<\/td><td>181 physical qubits (2,000x error reduction).<\/td><td>20,000-qubit Advantage3 annealer (2029). 10 logical qubits (2030). 100,000-qubit annealer (2031). 100 logical qubits (2032).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4<\/td><td><strong>IBM<\/strong> (IBM)<\/td><td>Kookaburra: first module combining qLDPC memory with a logical processing unit. Nighthawk runs 7,500-gate circuits on up to three 120-qubit modules.<\/td><td>Cockatoo: entanglement between modules. Nighthawk improves to 15,000 gates on up to 1,080 qubits.<\/td><td>Magic-state injection across multiple modules.<\/td><td>Starling (2029): 200 logical qubits, 100M gates, in Poughkeepsie. Blue Jay (2,000 logical qubits, 1B ops) after 2033.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td><strong>Quantinuum<\/strong> (QNT)<\/td><td>Helios (98 physical, 48 logical qubits) is being deployed.<\/td><td>Sol: 192 physical and 100 logical qubits, 10\u207b\u2075 logical error rate, first 2D QCCD trap chip.<\/td><td>Continued de-risking toward Apollo.<\/td><td>Apollo (2029): thousands of physical and hundreds of logical qubits.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td><strong>Infleqtion<\/strong> (INFQ)<\/td><td>30 entangled logical qubits on 80 physical qubits was announced Sept 24, 2026.<\/td><td>Illinois neutral-atom system, modular to more than 50 logical qubits.<\/td><td>100 logical qubits.<\/td><td>1,000+ logical qubits by 2030.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td><strong>Xanadu<\/strong> (XNDU)<\/td><td>Qubit Factory construction begins (2026\u201327). Photon-loss indicator at 24.1x.<\/td><td>Qubit Factory build continues.<\/td><td>Fault tolerance (2028\u201329).<\/td><td>Up to 200 logical qubits (2029), 500 (2030), 1,000+ (2031). Quantum data center in 2029\u201330.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8<\/td><td><strong>IQM<\/strong> (IQMX)<\/td><td>150-qubit Halocene commercially available by end of 2026. It targets 99.7% fidelity and up to 5 logical qubits. Munich system upgraded to 150 qubits.<\/td><td>LUMI-IQ starts with a 150-qubit Halocene H4. 300-qubit system to VTT.<\/td><td>Intermediate LUMI-IQ upgrade.<\/td><td>Halocene H5 (2029): up to 9 logical qubits with lattice surgery and T-gates. Fault tolerance by 2030.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9<\/td><td><strong>Microsoft<\/strong> (MSFT)<\/td><td>Majorana 2 was announced in June 2026. The published device roadmap moves from single-qubit devices to two-qubit braiding devices and then a 4\u00d72 tetron array. That array is meant to show error detection on two logical qubits.<\/td><td>No dated milestone.<br><br>Microsoft says it intends to build a fault-tolerant prototype topological system &#8220;in years, not decades&#8221; under DARPA&#8217;s US2QC program.<\/td><td>No dated milestone.<\/td><td>The roadmap points to a 27\u00d713 tetron array for quantum error correction, with no date. Majorana 1 is described as designed to scale to a million qubits on one chip.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td><strong>Alphabet \/ Google Quantum AI<\/strong> (GOOGL)<\/td><td>Willow Early Access Program is moving quantum hardware to outside research partners. The stated next roadmap milestone is a long-lived logical qubit, with no date.<\/td><td>No dated technical target.<\/td><td>No dated technical target.<\/td><td>Google has framed a useful, error-corrected quantum computer around 2029, with about a million physical qubits as the eventual scale. Willow currently has 105 physical qubits.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source strictness:<\/strong> investor-relations sources only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to make notes about the announcements done by main companies in this area, so I can review them in future. The table below covers 10 listed quantum companies and the technical milestones they have publicly committed to for roughly Q4 2026 through 2029. # Company (ticker) Late 2026 2027 2028 2029+ 1 IonQ &#8230; <a title=\"Quantum Computing roadmaps\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Quantum Computing roadmaps\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-computing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Quantum Computing roadmaps -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I want to make notes about the announcements done by main companies in this area, so I can review them in future. The table below covers 10 listed quantum - joapen projects\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quantum Computing roadmaps -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I want to make notes about the announcements done by main companies in this area, so I can review them in future. The table below covers 10 listed quantum - joapen projects\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"joapen projects\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-28T21:22:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-28T21:52:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"joapen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"joapen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"joapen\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217\"},\"headline\":\"Quantum Computing roadmaps\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-28T21:22:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-28T21:52:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":540,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Quantum Computing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/\",\"name\":\"Quantum Computing roadmaps -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-28T21:22:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-28T21:52:35+00:00\",\"description\":\"I want to make notes about the announcements done by main companies in this area, so I can review them in future. The table below covers 10 listed quantum - joapen projects\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/28\\\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Quantum Computing roadmaps\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"joapen projects\",\"description\":\"Just a place to write\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217\",\"name\":\"joapen\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/joapen-mini.jpeg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/joapen-mini.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/joapen-mini.jpeg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"joapen\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/joapen-mini.jpeg\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.joapen.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Quantum Computing roadmaps -","description":"I want to make notes about the announcements done by main companies in this area, so I can review them in future. The table below covers 10 listed quantum - joapen projects","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Quantum Computing roadmaps -","og_description":"I want to make notes about the announcements done by main companies in this area, so I can review them in future. The table below covers 10 listed quantum - joapen projects","og_url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/","og_site_name":"joapen projects","article_published_time":"2026-09-28T21:22:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-09-28T21:52:35+00:00","author":"joapen","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"joapen","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/"},"author":{"name":"joapen","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217"},"headline":"Quantum Computing roadmaps","datePublished":"2026-09-28T21:22:39+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-28T21:52:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/"},"wordCount":540,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217"},"articleSection":["Quantum Computing"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/","url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/","name":"Quantum Computing roadmaps -","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-09-28T21:22:39+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-28T21:52:35+00:00","description":"I want to make notes about the announcements done by main companies in this area, so I can review them in future. The table below covers 10 listed quantum - joapen projects","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/quantum-computing-roadmaps\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Quantum Computing roadmaps"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/","name":"joapen projects","description":"Just a place to write","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217","name":"joapen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joapen-mini.jpeg","url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joapen-mini.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joapen-mini.jpeg","width":400,"height":400,"caption":"joapen"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joapen-mini.jpeg"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.joapen.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8896,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions\/8896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}