Street Calls of the Week
Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley said in a note Friday that HSBC’s use of IBM’s Heron quantum processor marks one of the first known commercial applications of quantum computing and reinforces IBM’s leadership in the sector.
Earlier on Wednesday, HSBC announced it was able to “deliver up to a 34% improvement in predicting the probability of winning customer inquiries in the European corporate bond market” using IBM’s system, compared with classical computing resources.
HSBC added: “The results show the value quantum computers could offer when integrated into the dynamic problems facing the financial services industry, and how they could potentially offer superior solutions over standard methods which use classical computers alone.”
Morgan Stanley wrote, “We believe IBM is a clear leader in the quantum market,” pointing to its ecosystem of more than 75 system installations since 2017.
The bank stated that this is “four more quantum computers installed globally than the entire rest of the world…combined,” and includes 13 utility-scale systems with more than 100 qubits. IBM’s signings in the space have reached about $1 billion, “well ahead of peers,” the analysts said.
The firm highlighted that commercial use cases like HSBC’s are “incredibly important in proving the Quantum value proposition.” IBM has previously stated it expects to deliver an error-tolerant quantum computer by 2029, a milestone Morgan Stanley said would represent “a major shift towards quantum commercialization.”
“On the back of today’s press release, IBM added just under $13 billion of market capitalization,” stated Morgan Stanley.
Still, the bank cautioned that “quantum computing has the potential to become transformational technology, but the reality is that commercial applications of quantum are still in the early stages of development.”