Quantum Timeline
2007: D-Wave publicly demonstrated Orion, a 16-qubit quantum annealing processor.
2011: D-Wave One launched as the first commercially available quantum computer.
2013: D-Wave Two appeared, with 512 qubits and research use at the USC-Lockheed Martin center.
2015: D-Wave 2X and the NASA/Google quantum AI work brought wider visibility.
2016 - University of Maryland develop reprogrammable quantum computer
2017–2018: D-Wave 2000Q and the Leap cloud service expanded access.
2019 - IBM System One
2019 - Google sycamore quantum chip
2020 - IBM falcon quantum chip
2021 - IBM eagle quantum chip
2022 - IBM osprey quantum chip
2023 - IBM System Two
2023 - IBM Condor, heron quantum chip
2024 - Google willow quantum chip - It allowed them to run the “Quantum Echoes” algorithm, simulating molecular dynamics 13,000 times faster than classical methods.
2025 - Xanadu Aurora photonic quantum computer
2025 - Amazon ocelot quantum chip
2025 - Microsoft Majorana quantum chip
2025 - Psi Quantum quantum chip Omega
2025 - IBM nighthawk chip
2025 - IonQ announced a milestone that sent shockwaves through the industry: they had achieved a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.99%
2026 - Maryland has continued to promote quantum as central to Maryland's economic future: a new IonQ headquarters, a Deep Tech Facility, lab space, and jobs for engineers, physicists, and students who may spend their careers pushing qubits toward that hypothetical "ChatGPT moment." Microsoft plans to join the Discovery District, placing a major player alongside IonQ and the University of Maryland's physics and engineering labs.
2026 - Cisco Quantum Universal Switch
2026 - IBM and RIKEN reported a milestone where Fugaku worked in a closed loop with IBM’s on-premises Heron processor to simulate complex iron-sulfur molecules, which IBM described as the largest and most accurate chemistry experiment yet run on a quantum computer.