Shares of International Business Machines Co. are having their best day since January, driven by optimism around the company's quantum-computing efforts.
IBM is known for its various technologies, but its quantum efforts have been gaining more attention. The company announced a plan in June to build the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029, aiming for practical and scalable quantum computing.
IBM's quantum efforts have been getting more attention
A soon-to-be-published IBM paper discusses progress made in quantum error correction using an AMD chip, as reported by Reuters.
Author's summary: IBM's stock surges due to quantum progress.