[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":3419},["ShallowReactive",2],{"home-featured-es":3,"home-latest-es":3153},[4,309,1235,2677],{"_path":5,"_dir":6,"_draft":7,"_partial":7,"_locale":8,"title":9,"description":10,"date":11,"author":12,"tags":13,"readingTime":16,"body":17,"_type":303,"_id":304,"_source":305,"_file":306,"_stem":307,"_extension":308},"\u002Fes\u002Fblog\u002Ftop-quantum-computing-companies-2026","blog",false,"","Las principales empresas de computación cuántica en julio de 2026, explicadas y clasificadas","Una clasificación fundamentada de las empresas de computación cuántica que realmente importan en julio de 2026: ingresos reales, hitos de hardware reales y posiciones de caja reales, no entusiasmo de comunicado de prensa. Las cifras de IonQ merecen su puesto. Las de Rigetti todavía no igualan a sus competidoras.","2026-08-01","FreeQuantumComputing",[14,15],"Industry","Hardware",12,{"type":18,"children":19,"toc":288},"root",[20,28,42,49,70,76,81,87,92,113,118,124,137,143,148,154,159,164,170,175,181,186,192,197,203,208,214,253,259],{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":23,"children":24},"element","p",{},[25],{"type":26,"value":27},"text","La mayoría de las listas de \"principales empresas de computación cuántica\" clasifican por el número de cúbits que aparece en el titular o por lo reciente que sea el último comunicado de prensa de una empresa. Ninguna de las dos cosas mide gran cosa. Un número de cúbits sin una cifra de fidelidad asociada no dice nada sobre si una máquina hace trabajo útil, y un comunicado de prensa mide un presupuesto de marketing, no una hoja de ruta de hardware.",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":29,"children":30},{},[31,33,40],{"type":26,"value":32},"Esta clasificación usa tres criterios en su lugar: progreso técnico demostrado (fidelidad, cúbits lógicos, resultados reproducibles de forma independiente, no solo afirmaciones de titular), tracción comercial (ingresos, contratos, cartera de pedidos) y solidez financiera (posición de caja frente a la tasa de consumo). Cuando una cifra procede únicamente de las afirmaciones de la propia empresa, se dice explícitamente. Nuestro ",{"type":21,"tag":34,"props":35,"children":37},"a",{"href":36},"\u002Flandscape",[38],{"type":26,"value":39},"directorio completo del sector",{"type":26,"value":41}," recoge más de 60 empresas en cada categoría. Este artículo es lo contrario: una lista corta y con opinión propia sobre quién va por delante, y por qué algunos de los nombres más ruidosos no lo están.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":44,"children":46},"h2",{"id":45},"_1-ibm-quantum",[47],{"type":26,"value":48},"1. IBM Quantum",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":50,"children":51},{},[52,54,60,62,68],{"type":26,"value":53},"IBM sigue siendo la plataforma más amplia del sector, y julio de 2026 fue uno de sus meses más sólidos registrados: tres resultados distintos de ventaja cuántica anunciados el mismo día, con tres socios diferentes y tres estrategias de verificación diferentes. ",{"type":21,"tag":34,"props":55,"children":57},{"href":56},"\u002Fblog\u002Fibm-quantum-advantage-triple-announcement-2026",[58],{"type":26,"value":59},"Cubrimos el anuncio completo aquí",{"type":26,"value":61},". El procesador Nighthawk (120 cúbits, 218 acopladores sintonizables) ya está en funcionamiento, y la hoja de ruta pública de IBM apunta a la tolerancia a fallos para 2029 mediante una secuencia de sistemas intermedios, pasando a códigos de tipo qLDPC que recortan el sobrecoste de corrección de errores en torno a un 90% frente al código de superficie. El Open Plan de IBM sigue siendo además la forma más sencilla para cualquiera de ejecutar un circuito en hardware real de forma gratuita, lo que mantiene a IBM en el centro de cómo aprende la próxima generación de desarrolladores cuánticos. Consulta nuestra ",{"type":21,"tag":34,"props":63,"children":65},{"href":64},"\u002Fblog\u002Fibm-quantum-free-tier-2026",[66],{"type":26,"value":67},"guía del nivel gratuito de IBM Quantum",{"type":26,"value":69}," si quieres probarlo tú mismo. La debilidad de IBM es la otra cara de su amplitud: con tantas cosas ocurriendo a la vez, cada resultado individual recibe menos escrutinio del que recibiría de un competidor más pequeño y enfocado.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":71,"children":73},{"id":72},"_2-google-quantum-ai",[74],{"type":26,"value":75},"2. Google Quantum AI",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":77,"children":78},{},[79],{"type":26,"value":80},"El procesador Willow de Google entregó el resultado Quantum Echoes a finales de 2025 (publicado en Nature), un cálculo que el artículo estima en unas 13.000 veces más rápido que el mejor método clásico disponible, y la demostración de corrección de errores por debajo del umbral un año antes sigue siendo uno de los pocos hitos totalmente escrutados de forma independiente en el campo. Google añadió en marzo de 2026 un esfuerzo de investigación en átomos neutros junto a su trabajo con superconductores, cubriéndose ante la posibilidad de que los cúbits transmón no sean la respuesta definitiva. Google publica con menos frecuencia que sus competidores y dice menos entre publicaciones, una estrategia de investigación defendible pero que dificulta seguir su progreso mes a mes.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":82,"children":84},{"id":83},"_3-ionq",[85],{"type":26,"value":86},"3. IonQ",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":88,"children":89},{},[90],{"type":26,"value":91},"Las cifras de IonQ son las más sólidas del sector entre las empresas puramente de hardware cuántico, y eso es una afirmación factual, no promocional. Los ingresos del primer trimestre de 2026 alcanzaron los 64,7 millones de dólares, un aumento del 755% interanual, con una previsión anual elevada a 260-270 millones de dólares y obligaciones de rendimiento pendientes de 470 millones de dólares, un aumento del 554%. Ese no es el perfil de una empresa que funciona a base de esperanza. La tracción gubernamental lo respalda: un contrato marco con la Agencia de Defensa Antimisiles con un tope de hasta 151.000 millones de dólares (un tope, no una garantía de gasto, pero aun así inusualmente grande), un nuevo contrato de DARPA en abril de 2026 y un acuerdo de computación cuántica-HPC soberana con el instituto surcoreano KISTI.",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":93,"children":94},{},[95,97,103,105,111],{"type":26,"value":96},"En hardware, el enfoque de iones atrapados de IonQ se beneficia de la técnica de \"puerta suave\" procedente de la adquisición de Oxford Ionics, que según la empresa eleva la fidelidad de puerta de dos cúbits por encima del 99,99% sin necesitar un enfriamiento completo al estado fundamental, un atajo de ingeniería genuino si se confirma bajo pruebas independientes. IonQ también publicó en diciembre de 2025 un resultado de descodificador (Beam Search, para códigos LDPC cuánticos) que afirma una reducción de 5,6 a 17 veces en la tasa de error lógico frente a la línea base estándar BP-OSD, con descodificación por debajo del milisegundo en un núcleo de CPU ordinario. Si eso escala como proyecta IonQ, es un camino considerablemente más barato hacia la descodificación en tiempo real que las rutas FPGA y ASIC que persiguen los competidores, un tema que profundizamos en ",{"type":21,"tag":34,"props":98,"children":100},{"href":99},"\u002Fblog\u002Fquantum-error-decoding-bottleneck",[101],{"type":26,"value":102},"el cuello de botella de la descodificación en tiempo real",{"type":26,"value":104},". Y la adquisición de la fundición SkyWater Technology, ",{"type":21,"tag":34,"props":106,"children":108},{"href":107},"\u002Fblog\u002Fionq-skywater-acquisition-explained",[109],{"type":26,"value":110},"que analizamos en detalle aquí",{"type":26,"value":112},", le da a IonQ una cadena de suministro totalmente doméstica y autorizada para defensa para los electrodos, la fotónica y la electrónica de control alrededor de sus cúbits, una ventaja real ante compradores gubernamentales independiente de la física de los cúbits.",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":114,"children":115},{},[116],{"type":26,"value":117},"Nada de esto está verificado de forma independiente como lo estuvo el resultado por debajo del umbral de Google. Las afirmaciones de fidelidad, descodificador y velocidad de puerta de IonQ son cifras propias de IonQ. Pero la tracción comercial y gubernamental está reportada externamente y es auditable, a diferencia de las afirmaciones de marketing, y es poco frecuente que una empresa de hardware tan joven muestre un crecimiento de ingresos real a esta escala en lugar de depender solo de financiación de investigación. Esa combinación, tracción comercial demostrada más una hoja de ruta de hardware coherente, es la razón por la que IonQ se clasifica por delante de competidores con resultados de laboratorio posiblemente comparables o mejores, pero una historia comercial mucho más débil.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":119,"children":121},{"id":120},"_4-quantinuum",[122],{"type":26,"value":123},"4. Quantinuum",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":125,"children":126},{},[127,129,135],{"type":26,"value":128},"El sistema Helios de Quantinuum afirma tener 48 cúbits lógicos corregidos de errores a partir de aproximadamente 96 cúbits físicos, una proporción de 2:1 que sería significativa si se confirma, ya que las estimaciones de código de superficie en hardware superconductor suelen alcanzar cientos o miles de cúbits físicos por cúbit lógico. ",{"type":21,"tag":34,"props":130,"children":132},{"href":131},"\u002Fblog\u002Fquantinuum-helios-logical-qubits-2026",[133],{"type":26,"value":134},"Explicamos aquí por qué esa proporción es siquiera posible",{"type":26,"value":136},": la conectividad de todos con todos de los iones atrapados permite comprobaciones de paridad no locales que un chip superconductor plano no puede cablear. Quantinuum salió a bolsa en 2026 con una valoración de 15.600 millones de dólares, más de un 50% por encima de su última ronda privada, meses antes, con Honeywell conservando aproximadamente el 48% del poder de voto. Esa acogida de la OPV dice que el mercado cree en la historia técnica. La cifra de 2:1, como las afirmaciones de fidelidad de IonQ, procede del propio fabricante y todavía no se ha reproducido de forma independiente.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":138,"children":140},{"id":139},"_5-d-wave",[141],{"type":26,"value":142},"5. D-Wave",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":144,"children":145},{},[146],{"type":26,"value":147},"D-Wave ocupa una categoría diferente, recocido cuántico en lugar de computación por modelo de puertas, y por eso es fácil subestimarla. Las reservas del primer trimestre de 2026 crecieron casi 20 veces interanual hasta 33,4 millones de dólares, frente a unos comparativamente pequeños 2,9 millones de dólares de ingresos reconocidos, lo que significa que la cartera de pedidos es real, pero el retraso en el reconocimiento es largo. Una posición de caja de 588 millones de dólares le da margen para esperar. Acuerdos con la Universidad Atlántica de Florida y un cliente Fortune 100 para acceso en la nube cuántica muestran que su nicho, problemas de optimización que encajan de forma natural con el recocido, sigue teniendo demanda comercial activa.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":149,"children":151},{"id":150},"_6-rigetti-computing",[152],{"type":26,"value":153},"6. Rigetti Computing",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":155,"children":156},{},[157],{"type":26,"value":158},"Rigetti es la empresa de esta lista donde la brecha entre el relato y las cifras es más amplia. Su Cepheus-1, un sistema superconductor de 108 cúbits, alcanzó disponibilidad general en abril de 2026 tras retrasarse respecto al objetivo original del cuarto trimestre de 2025, demorado por problemas de fidelidad en los acopladores sintonizables. Una vez enviado, la fidelidad de puerta de dos cúbits reportada se situó en torno al 99-99,1%, por debajo del propio objetivo de Rigetti del 99,5% y bien por debajo de las cifras que afirman tanto IonQ como Quantinuum para sus respectivas plataformas. Los ingresos del primer trimestre de 2026 fueron de 4,4 millones de dólares, una fracción de los 64,7 millones de dólares de IonQ en el mismo trimestre. Los informes públicos también describen un revés en un hito de un programa de DARPA, lo que añade presión a una empresa que en gran medida se autofinancia su hoja de ruta en este momento.",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":160,"children":161},{},[162],{"type":26,"value":163},"La única fortaleza genuina es el balance: alrededor de 569 millones de dólares en efectivo, sin deuda, y una tasa de consumo de unos 26 millones de dólares por trimestre, lo que compra un margen real de tiempo. Vale la pena reconocerlo directamente, ya que una posición de caja sólida es un activo real, no un premio de consolación. Pero el efectivo compra tiempo, no posición competitiva, y en las métricas que realmente predicen si un ordenador cuántico hace trabajo útil, fidelidad, progreso en cúbits lógicos, tracción comercial independiente, Rigetti va por detrás de IBM, Google, IonQ y Quantinuum, no a su par. Su propia hoja de ruta pública hacia los 1.000+ cúbits se lee, según las cifras, más como una recuperación de varios años que como una vía paralela.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":165,"children":167},{"id":166},"_7-psiquantum",[168],{"type":26,"value":169},"7. PsiQuantum",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":171,"children":172},{},[173],{"type":26,"value":174},"El enfoque fotónico de PsiQuantum, centrado ante todo en la tolerancia a fallos, recaudó una ronda Serie E de 1.000 millones de dólares en septiembre de 2025 y aseguró unos 940 millones de dólares australianos (unos 620 millones de dólares estadounidenses) en compromisos de los gobiernos de Australia y Queensland. La construcción de su planta en Brisbane comenzó en junio de 2026, pero el calendario de entrega se ha retrasado del objetivo original de 2027 a 2029. PsiQuantum nunca ha enviado un sistema comercial y lo apuesta todo a que una máquina tolerante a fallos funcione a la primera cuando se construya a gran escala, un perfil de riesgo genuinamente distinto al de cualquier competidor de modelo de puertas de esta lista, todos los cuales tienen hoy hardware funcionando (aunque ruidoso) en el terreno.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":176,"children":178},{"id":177},"_8-xanadu",[179],{"type":26,"value":180},"8. Xanadu",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":182,"children":183},{},[184],{"type":26,"value":185},"Xanadu salió a cotizar en el Nasdaq y la TSX en marzo de 2026, recaudando 302 millones de dólares, y su sistema fotónico modular Aurora afirma tener corrección de errores en tiempo real, un paso técnico significativo si se verifica de forma independiente. Su framework PennyLane sigue siendo una de las herramientas de código abierto más usadas en aprendizaje automático cuántico, independientemente del hardware al que apunte, lo que le da a Xanadu un punto de apoyo en el ecosistema que no depende de que sus propios chips ganen.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":187,"children":189},{"id":188},"_9-pasqal",[190],{"type":26,"value":191},"9. Pasqal",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":193,"children":194},{},[195],{"type":26,"value":196},"El enfoque de átomos neutros de Pasqal recaudó 340 millones de euros y valoró una fusión SPAC en 2.000 millones de dólares, con cierre previsto en la segunda mitad de 2026. Su hoja de ruta pública apunta a una demostración de ventaja con 250 cúbits en 2026 y un camino hacia más de 10.000 cúbits con sus sistemas Vela y Centaurus. Los átomos neutros siguen en una etapa comercial más temprana que los iones atrapados o los cúbits superconductores, pero la financiación y las relaciones gubernamentales de Pasqal (particularmente en Europa) le dan una resistencia real para alcanzar esa escala.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":198,"children":200},{"id":199},"_10-quera-computing",[201],{"type":26,"value":202},"10. QuEra Computing",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":204,"children":205},{},[206],{"type":26,"value":207},"QuEra reportó 96 cúbits lógicos codificados en 448 cúbits físicos en un artículo de Nature de enero de 2026, una proporción que, si resiste el escrutinio como lo hizo el resultado por debajo del umbral de Google, situaría el recuento de cúbits lógicos de QuEra por delante del resultado Helios de Quantinuum. Más de 507 millones de dólares en financiación total de inversores como Google y SoftBank le dan los recursos para seguir empujando el enfoque de átomos neutros hacia la escala.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":209,"children":211},{"id":210},"el-resto-del-sector-en-breve",[212],{"type":26,"value":213},"El resto del sector, en breve",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":215,"children":216},{},[217,223,225,230,232,237,239,244,246,251],{"type":21,"tag":218,"props":219,"children":220},"strong",{},[221],{"type":26,"value":222},"Atom Computing",{"type":26,"value":224}," persigue 50 cúbits lógicos sobre más de 1.200 cúbits físicos para finales de 2026, trabajando con el grupo QuNorth de Microsoft en corrección de errores. ",{"type":21,"tag":218,"props":226,"children":227},{},[228],{"type":26,"value":229},"IQM",{"type":26,"value":231}," recaudó 50 millones de euros de BlackRock y alcanzó una valoración SPAC de 1.800 millones de dólares, posicionándose como la primera empresa de hardware cuántico puro cotizada en la UE, con 21 sistemas ya vendidos a 13 clientes. ",{"type":21,"tag":218,"props":233,"children":234},{},[235],{"type":26,"value":236},"Infleqtion",{"type":26,"value":238}," salió a cotizar en la NYSE en febrero de 2026 y reporta 1.600 cúbits físicos con una fidelidad del 99,73%. ",{"type":21,"tag":218,"props":240,"children":241},{},[242],{"type":26,"value":243},"Microsoft",{"type":26,"value":245}," lanzó en junio de 2026 su actualización de cúbit topológico Majorana 2, con una mejora afirmada de 1.000 veces en la vida útil del cúbit, un resultado que sigue enfrentando un escrutinio real de la comunidad de física dado lo cuestionadas que han sido históricamente las afirmaciones sobre cúbits topológicos. 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Lo que no envejece tan rápido es el método: comprobar los ingresos frente a las previsiones, comprobar la fidelidad frente a los propios objetivos declarados de la empresa, comprobar si una afirmación de \"cúbit lógico\" o \"ventaja cuántica\" se ha reproducido de forma independiente o todavía descansa únicamente en la palabra de un fabricante. Aplica ese mismo método al próximo anuncio que leas, nuestro ",{"type":21,"tag":34,"props":265,"children":267},{"href":266},"\u002Fblog\u002Fquantum-benchmarking-eo-14413",[268],{"type":26,"value":269},"artículo sobre benchmarking cuántico",{"type":26,"value":271}," profundiza en por qué el sector todavía carece de una forma fiable e independiente de los fabricantes para comparar hardware. 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Hoy puedes escribir y ejecutar un circuito cuántico en una máquina real de 127 cúbits — gratis — desde tu portátil. Esta guía te muestra todas las opciones disponibles para ti ahora mismo.",{"type":21,"tag":43,"props":327,"children":329},{"id":328},"lo-que-realmente-necesitas",[330],{"type":26,"value":331},"Lo que realmente necesitas",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":333,"children":334},{},[335],{"type":26,"value":336},"Para empezar, necesitas exactamente tres cosas:",{"type":21,"tag":338,"props":339,"children":340},"ol",{},[341,352,362],{"type":21,"tag":342,"props":343,"children":344},"li",{},[345,350],{"type":21,"tag":218,"props":346,"children":347},{},[348],{"type":26,"value":349},"Python 3.9+",{"type":26,"value":351}," instalado en tu máquina",{"type":21,"tag":342,"props":353,"children":354},{},[355,360],{"type":21,"tag":218,"props":356,"children":357},{},[358],{"type":26,"value":359},"Una cuenta gratuita",{"type":26,"value":361}," en una de las plataformas cuánticas en la nube (IBM Quantum es la más sencilla)",{"type":21,"tag":342,"props":363,"children":364},{},[365,370],{"type":21,"tag":218,"props":366,"children":367},{},[368],{"type":26,"value":369},"Cinco minutos",{"type":26,"value":371}," para ejecutar tu primer estado de Bell",{"type":21,"tag":22,"props":373,"children":374},{},[375],{"type":26,"value":376},"Eso es todo. 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