IonQ shows a conventional CPU can keep up with error correction in a modeled million-operation quantum workload

Verdict: MONITOR

Its decoder handled simulated fault-tolerant workloads reaching 408 logical qubits and more than one million T gates on 12 CPU cores, suggesting classical decoding may not be the bottleneck for IonQ’s slower-cycle trapped-ion architecture.

Reviewed, edited and approved by Joerg Germann, Editor · Editorial method

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