IBM will deliver Kookaburra, its first modular processor designed to store and process encoded information, in 2026.

IBM said this on 2025-06-10. The Ledger scores it on 2026-12-31, against criteria fixed on 2026-09-23.

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What was said

IBM Quantum Kookaburra, expected in 2026, will be IBM's first modular processor designed to store and process encoded information.

press release, IBM, 2025-06-10

Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20250610152753/https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-06-10-IBM-Sets-the-Course-to-Build-Worlds-First-Large-Scale,-Fault-Tolerant-Quantum-Computer-at-New-IBM-Quantum-Data-Center

How it is scored

Resolves VERIFIED if, by 31 Dec 2026 (plus grace), IBM has publicly demonstrated a Kookaburra processor module that both stores error-encoded information in its qLDPC memory and processes it with its attached logic unit, confirmed by an IBM announcement plus independent technical reporting or a paper. PARTIALLY_VERIFIED if Kookaburra is shown but demonstrates only the encoded memory or only the logic, not both working together. NOT_VERIFIED if no Kookaburra module has been shown by the deadline.

Sources that will settle it: https://newsroom.ibm.com, https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog, https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/recent.

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