> CEO Arvind Krishna told "Axios on HBO" ahead of a planned announcement<p>Ah - so this is an announcement of an announcement. Those are always off topic on HN: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20announcement%22" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...</a><p>Fortunately, there's no harm in waiting: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22no%20harm%20in%20waiting%22%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...</a>
The breakthrough:<p>"IBM says its new Eagle processor can handle 127 qubits, a measure of quantum computing power."<p>That seems like _alot_
Not long ago google announced a 70qubit computer
Article is a bit light on details, I'd wait until we see more results published and how they measure against other quantum computers like D-Wave's processors <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quantum_processors" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quantum_processors</a>
Is this going to be true or another marketing-push that ultimately is IBM-lies? I'm thinking of Watson, the AI game changer that was thrown into the dust bin...