Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough Targets 2028 as Industry Accelerates Practical Computing Timeline

Quantum error correction has long been the critical bottleneck preventing practical quantum computers, but industry commitments to 2028 delivery could accelerate deployment by years ahead of previous expectations. Achieving this milestone would be transformative for cryptography, drug discovery, and materials science applications. However, scaling from today's dozens of qubits to the thousands of high-quality logical qubits required remains the defining challenge of the next few years.