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Dwave Systems Commercializing 512 Qubit Adiabatic Quantum Computer

Friday, November 16, 2012 19:53

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Toronto Globe and Mail – Dwave is preparinng to launch a 512-qubit product before the end of 2012, the company has proven that it can roughly double the number of qubits every year.

DWave first showed off its 512 qubit chip in late 2011, but it has taken about one year to prepare it as a commercial product.

“A quantum computer is on a completely different scaling curve, where once it passes traditional computers, they can never catch up,” says Mr. Jurvetson, who sits on D-Wave’s board. “That is just unprecedented in the technology business.”

Investors, including prominent U.S. venture capital firms, have staked $130-million on the Montreal-raised theoretical physicist’s big idea. D-Wave is beginning to attract paying customers, too. In 2010 it sold its first system, to aerospace and defence giant Lockheed Martin. And last month it closed $30-million in equity financing from two big names: Bezos Expeditions, a venture capital shop established by Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos; and In-Q-Tel, which sources technology for U.S. intelligence agencies.

The Dwave Adiabatic quantum computer can run machine learning mathematics and could be able to overcome some of the key bottlenecks in machine learning and artificial intelligence.