IBM's Quantum Leap Propels Stock to 75th in Trading Volume Ranking

On June 24, 2025, IBM's trading volume reached 8.73 billion, ranking 75th in the day's stock market. IBM (IBM) rose by 1.61%, marking two consecutive days of gains, with a total increase of 4.58% over the past two days.

IBM has made significant strides in the quantum computing sector with the installation of its first Quantum System Two outside the United States. This system, located at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, features IBM's 156-qubit Quantum Heron processor. The Heron processor boasts an error rate ten times better than its predecessor, Eagle, and processes information ten times faster, enabling more reliable and quicker results for complex problems.

The co-location of the quantum system with Riken's supercomputer Fugaku allows for direct integration between quantum and classical computing resources. This proximity is crucial for use cases that require low latency and efficient communication between the two systems, facilitating better resource orchestration and workload management.

The collaboration between IBM and Riken has already yielded research published in Science Advances, focusing on molecular structures that were previously difficult to model with classical methods alone. The team successfully modeled iron sulfide, Fe4S4, a molecule important for protein redox reactions and challenging to tackle with traditional computational methods.

IBM's hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing approach is seen as the best path to achieving quantum advantage, where quantum computers can solve specific problems faster, more efficiently, or more accurately than the best available classical computer methods. IBM aims to demonstrate quantum advantage before 2026, with multiple demonstrations expected in various applications.