PredictionHardwareDelivered

Japan plans its first homegrown quantum computer by March 2023

Due Mar 2023

Japan's government said in April 2022 that its first domestically built quantum computer, led by the state research institute RIKEN, would be ready for use by the end of March 2023.

Predicted by

Government of Japan

Type

Government target

Said on

Apr 2022

Original deadline

by the end of March next year (Mar 2023)

Status

Delivered

Outcome

Mar 27, 2023: A RIKEN-led consortium announced Japan's first superconducting quantum computer, a 64-qubit machine, on March 24, 2023, and opened it to users in Japan as a cloud service from March 27, 2023.

Outcome sources

• NTT Japanese joint research group launches quantum computing cloud service
  Primary sourceMar 24, 2023

  “Japanese joint research group launches quantum computing cloud service Opening access to Japan's first superconducting quantum computer”

RIKEN

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