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Vendor Roadmap Tracker

Every dated roadmap promise from every major quantum-computing vendor — and what actually shipped. We log each claim's primary source, mark whether it was delivered, delivered late, missed, softened, or still pending. The page IBM, Google, and Quantinuum cannot publish about each other.

Vendors tracked
12
Total claims
92
Delivered
47
Missed
8
Softened
8
Last verified
2026-05-24

Why this page exists

Every quantum vendor publishes a roadmap. None publish a comparison of their roadmap accuracy against competitors'. We do, because we don't sell hardware. Every claim links to its primary source; outcomes link to verifiable releases or third-party challenges. More on editorial independence →

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Sorted by delivery rate (delivered + 0.6×late) ÷ past-due claims. Pending milestones are excluded — they haven't had a chance to slip yet.

Vendor Modality Delivered Late Missed Softened Pending Delivery rate
Quantinuum

Founded 2021 · Broomfield, CO / Cambridge, UK

Trapped-ion 5 0 0 0 3 100%
PsiQuantum

Founded 2015 · Palo Alto, CA

Photonic 2 0 0 0 4 100%
Atom Computing

Founded 2018 · Berkeley, CA / Boulder, CO

Neutral-atom 3 0 0 0 2 100%
QuEra Computing

Founded 2018 · Boston, MA

Neutral-atom 4 0 0 0 2 100%
Pasqal

Founded 2019 · Massy, France

Neutral-atom 3 0 0 0 2 100%
Xanadu

Founded 2016 · Toronto, Canada

Photonic 4 0 0 1 2 80%
IBM Quantum

Founded 2016 · Yorktown Heights, NY

Superconducting 6 1 1 1 4 73%
Google Quantum AI

Founded 2012 · Santa Barbara, CA

Superconducting 3 1 0 1 3 72%
IonQ

Founded 2015 · College Park, MD

Trapped-ion 3 2 1 1 3 60%
D-Wave

Founded 1999 · Burnaby, BC, Canada

Annealing 4 0 2 1 1 57%
Microsoft Quantum (topological)

Founded 2005 · Redmond, WA

Topological 2 1 1 1 3 52%
Rigetti Computing

Founded 2013 · Berkeley, CA

Superconducting 2 1 3 2 2 33%

Vendor summaries

Trapped-ion

Quantinuum

Honeywell Quantum Solutions + Cambridge Quantum, merged 2021. The most consistent technical-delivery story in the industry: highest 2-qubit gate fidelity on commercial hardware (Helios: 8×10⁻⁴), all-to-all connectivity, and real logical-qubit demonstrations. Marketing is quieter than IBM/Google, but the numbers are the strongest.

8 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Photonic

PsiQuantum

Bet entirely on photonic measurement-based quantum computing at ~1M qubit scale, skipping the NISQ era. Massive capital raise ($1B+ public commitments) and large public-sector contracts in Australia (Brisbane), US (Chicago), UK. No public hardware demonstrations — by design. Either delivers the most consequential moonshot in QC or doesn't.

6 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Neutral-atom

Atom Computing

Neutral-atom (strontium) systems with focus on high-qubit-count scaling. Phoenix: 1,180 qubits announced late 2023, first system to publicly exceed 1,000 qubits. Slower on gate-fidelity milestones than trapped-ion competitors; faster on raw qubit count.

5 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Neutral-atom

QuEra Computing

MIT/Harvard spin-out (Lukin, Vuletic). Rubidium-based analog and digital neutral-atom systems. The 2024 'Lukin paper' (Nature, Bluvstein et al.) demonstrated 48 logical qubits — at the time the most logical qubits ever entangled. Slightly behind Atom Computing on raw count, ahead on logical-qubit demonstrations.

6 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Neutral-atom

Pasqal

French neutral-atom company (Browaeys, Lahaye). 1,024-qubit Orion system. Strong European public-sector positioning (GENCI partnerships, Jülich installations). Less emphasis on logical-qubit demonstrations to date; more focus on hardware deployments at HPC centers.

5 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Photonic

Xanadu

Photonic quantum computing with squeezed-light/Gaussian boson sampling (Borealis) and continuous-variable approach. Strong PennyLane open-source ecosystem (used heavily in academia). Less aggressive on commercial-system timelines than PsiQuantum; more open-source-software-focused.

7 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Superconducting

IBM Quantum

The most-published roadmap in the industry. IBM commits publicly to dated targets and updates the roadmap yearly. Mostly hits qubit-count targets; error-correction milestones have slipped. The Heron and Nighthawk generations represent real progress on 2-qubit error.

13 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Superconducting

Google Quantum AI

Quieter roadmap than IBM but milestone delivery has been substantive: Sycamore (2019), Willow (2024). Targets long-term FTQC by ~2030. Marketing language sometimes overstates ('quantum supremacy', 'below threshold') but the underlying experiments are real.

8 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Trapped-ion

IonQ

Public company (NYSE: IONQ). Acquired Oxford Ionics in 2025 to gain microfabricated-trap technology. Achieved 1×10⁻⁴ 2-qubit gate error on Tempo (the lowest on any commercial system). Roadmap is investor-facing and ambitious — qubit-count claims have been criticized for using 'algorithmic qubits' rather than physical-qubit counts.

9 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Annealing

D-Wave

The oldest quantum vendor and the only one focused exclusively on quantum annealing (with a gate-model add-on announced 2021). Long-standing controversy on quantum-advantage claims. Advantage2 ships 4,400 qubits — more than any gate-model system — but the qubits implement Ising-Hamiltonian-minimization, not universal computation.

8 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Topological

Microsoft Quantum (topological)

Bets on topological qubits (Majorana zero modes) as the path to scalable FTQC. Twenty years of research, multiple high-profile retractions (Kouwenhoven et al. 2018 Nature paper retracted 2021), and finally the Majorana 1 chip announced February 2025. The Majorana 1 announcement remains controversial — the underlying physics claims have not been independently replicated.

8 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Superconducting

Rigetti Computing

Early superconducting-quantum company (NASDAQ: RGTI). Has slipped on most ambitious dates. Differentiator was the multi-chip Ankaa architecture; 2024-2025 has been a rebuilding phase after revenue and timeline misses.

9 claims tracked · last verified 2026-05-24

Methodology

For every claim we record: the year and venue where it was announced, the deadline, the milestone description, and the outcome. Statuses:

  • Delivered: shipped on or before the deadline with the claimed capability.
  • Delivered (late): shipped within ≤12 months past the original deadline, or shipped with caveats that materially reduced the claim.
  • Missed: deadline passed with no public demonstration of the milestone.
  • Softened: vendor quietly revised the goal, dropped the milestone from later roadmaps, or materially weakened the original claim.
  • Pending: deadline is still in the future.

We do not include analyst-summarized claims, conference-talk speculation, or rumored capabilities. Every entry has a primary-source URL (vendor press release, official roadmap page, peer-reviewed paper). Corrections with primary sources are welcome.

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