As the quantum industry progresses, quantum hardware will fall into one of three categories of Quantum Computing Implementation Levels.
- Level 1—Foundational
Quantum systems that run on noisy physical qubits which includes all of today’s Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers.
Microsoft has brought these quantum machines—the world’s best, with the highest quantum volumes in the industry—to the cloud with Microsoft Quantum including IonQ, Pasqal, Quantinuum, QCI, and Rigetti. These quantum computers are great for experimentation as an-on -ramp to scaled quantum computing.
At the Foundational Level, the industry measures progress by counting qubits and quantum volume.
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