IBM quantum computing software roadmap: frictionless quantum computing will appear in 2025

IBM announced its software roadmap for quantum computing. Among them, it is expected that a Qiskit runtime will be released this year, and the software interface and circuit library, and control system updates will be realized by 2023. Last September, IBM also announced its quantum computing hardware roadmap.

IBM pointed out that Qiskit runtime is an execution environment. It can increase the ability to run more circuits at a much faster rate than before and has the ability to store quantum programs so that other users can run them as a service. It can also reduce the communication delay between the user’s computer and the quantum processor.

At the same time, IBM said that it is paying attention to the interface with the OpenQASM3 assembly language, which will allow quantum kernel developers to run dynamic circuits. The company also plans to launch a circuit library and advanced control system for processing large qubit structures by 2023, so that its quantum core developers can make full use of hardware with thousands or more qubits.

On the other hand, IBM said that for quantum algorithm developers, the company will continue to improve and introduce new tools to efficiently construct and implement quantum circuits; as well as specific application modules for natural science, optimization, machine learning, and finance. Make their exploration easier.

By 2023, IBM plans to provide a pre-built runtime that can be called from cloud-based APIs using a common developer framework. IBM believes that looking forward to 2025 and beyond, frictionless quantum computing will become a reality. At that time, due to the existence of cloud computing and APIs, the hardware nuances of quantum computing will become irrelevant to users or developers. It is predicted that by 2030, companies and users will operate billions or even trillions of quantum circuits every day.