By Paul Rincon
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The first IBM processor to surpass 100 qubits was Eagle.
IBM is working on a processor that is part of a project to build super-fast computers.
These machines could help solve problems beyond the reach of the most advanced "classical" ones.
The lab is where the quantum computers are kept.
The new chip has twice the amount of "qubits" as the previous IBM processor.
The most basic units of information in a quantum computer are qubits.
The new Eagle processor is a key milestone in the path towards practical quantum computation.
One quantum computing expert said more information was needed to assess whether it was a significant advance.
The machines have the potential to vastly improve computing power and have seen a surge of interest in recent years.
They could be used to improve aspects of artificial intelligence.
Matter behaves in strange ways at very small scales.
The unit of information is called a "bit" and can either be zero or one.
The qubit can be both one and zero at the same time.
Superposition is where something can exist in multiple states at the same time.
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A quantum computer was built by the internet company.
Multiple qubits must be linked together to harness their power.
The computational power of the processor is doubled with each additional qubit added.
The company's Hummingbird and Falcon were unveiled in 2020.
The arrival of the Eagle processor is a major step towards the day when quantum computers can beat classical computers for useful applications, said senior vice-president and research director Dr Daro Gil.
"Quantum computing has the power to transform nearly every sector and help us tackle the biggest problems of our time."
quantum supremacy is an important step.
The performance of a conventional computer on a particular task was surpassed for the first time by the 53-qubit Sycamore quantum processor.
The results were published in a prestigious journal.
Scientists from IBM questioned some of the figures of the internet company.
Prof Scott Aaronson from the University of Texas at Austin said he was looking forward to seeing the details of the new Eagle chip.
The quantum computing expert said that the information released so far by IBM did not have the parameters he used to assess quantum-computing progress.
IBM was the first company to put quantum computing on to the cloud.
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