Quantum computing company Rigetti launched its 84-qubit Ankaa-3 system in late December 2024, stating that its new flagship system features an “extensive hardware redesign that enables superior performance.”
This includes a new cryogenic hardware design to reduce the amount of metal at the refrigerator’s coldest stage, increasing efficiency and reducing the cost per qubit, and an improved qubit chip consisting of a new metal deposition method for qubit circuitry and an optimized circuit layout.
"The remarkable performance of Ankaa-3 reinforces our leadership in the superconducting quantum computing field - which we believe is the winning modality for high-performance quantum computers due to their many advantages, including fast gate speeds and well-established manufacturing processes," said Dr. Subodh Kulkarni, Rigetti CEO.
The company’s CFO, David Rivas, added: “Our teams, across the technology stack, work incredibly hard to introduce new, innovative ways to increase our system’s performance. As we continue the journey towards fault tolerance, we are constructing computing systems with capabilities that have not been seen before.”
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