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Quantinuum affirme que son ordinateur à ions piégés Helios a atteint 99,9995 pour cent de fidélité logique avec un code de couleur, soit environ cinq erreurs par million d'opérations, dix fois mieux que son propre résultat un mois plus tôt. Il s'agit d'une annonce d'entreprise, pas encore d'un article évalué par les pairs, à lire comme une affirmation.
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In a press release dated October 19, 2026, Quantinuum announced what it calls a world record in quantum error correction: a logical fidelity of 99.9995 percent on its commercial Helios system, achieved with a colour code inside its error correction architecture. The company says this is ten times lower error than its own record from the previous month and that the result sits within the accuracy range it needs for Apollo, the universal fault tolerant machine it plans for 2029.
The numbers come from the company, and the comparison to other hardware is Quantinuum's framing. Even read cautiously, two tenfold improvements on the same hardware in two months is the pattern that matters: error correction is improving faster than the five year planning cycles most infrastructure operators run on.
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