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D-Wave sells a commercial quantum annealing system
From The Road to Useful Quantum Computing: From Qubits to Error Correction
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D-Wave sells a commercial quantum annealing system
Lockheed Martin bought a D-Wave One system built around a 128-qubit quantum annealing processor.
Quantum annealing targets optimisation problems and differs from a universal gate-based quantum computer. The sale was commercially important, but claims of speed advantage remained debated and qubit counts could not be compared directly with gate-model systems.
