Enlarge / The current generation of hardware. (credit: D-Wave) Tracking quantum computing has been a bit confusing in that there are multiple approaches to it. Most of the effort goes toward what are called gate-based computers, which allow you to perform logical operations on individual qubits. These are well understood theoretically and can perform a […]
(credit: D-Wave) Early on in D-Wave’s history, the company made bold claims about its quantum annealer outperforming algorithms run on traditional CPUs. Those claims turned out to be premature, as improvements to these algorithms pulled the traditional hardware back in front. Since then, the company has been far more circumspect about its performance claims, even […]
Expand Nowadays, quantum computing firm D-Wave is announcing the availability of its next-generation quantum annealer, a specialized chip which uses quantum results to resolve optimization and minimization issues. The hardware itself is not a lot of surprise–D-Wave had been discussing its specifics months past –however D-Wave spoke with Ars concerning the challenges of constructing a […]