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Clarity: D-Wave's guiding light for its future in quantum computing

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:40:04 +0000

Today, D-Wave unveiled Clarity, its roadmap for the years ahead. Improving current hardware and services, debuting gate-model quantum computers, and quantum annealing will be the centerpieces. Read more...

D-Wave announces the next generation of its quantum system and more at the Qubits conference

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:40:01 +0000

Today at its annual conference, Qubits, D-Wave announced Advantage 2 with over 7,000 qubits, new hybrid solvers in its Leap quantum cloud service, and expansion into gate-model quantum computers. Read more...

Interview: D-Wave's Alan Baratz on the present and future of practical quantum computers

Ather Fawaz — Sun, 23 May 2021 00:00:01 +0000

We sat down with D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz to have a chat about quantum computers, what kind of problems they're solving, how they're tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, and what lies ahead. Read more...

D-Wave announces Advantage, its 5000 qubit, next-gen quantum computing system

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:46:01 +0000

With a qubit count of 5000, D-Wave's next gen quantum system is also the most connected quantum computer to date. The firm also announced a new hybrid solver and a program to boost businesses in QC. Read more...

Amazon Braket, a fully managed quantum computing service, hits general availability

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:32:01 +0000

Amazon Braket is now generally available. It supports local simulation of quantum algorithms on EC2 instances and provides access to real quantum computing hardware from D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti. Read more...

D-Wave and NEC join hands to expand quantum computing in Japan

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:16:02 +0000

Under the partnership, NEC has made an investment worth $10 million in D-wave to focus on the development of hybrid quantum software for industries like transportation, marketing, and finance. Read more...

D-Wave provides free quantum cloud access to tackle COVID-19

Paul Hill — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:26:01 +0000

D-Wave has opened up free access to its cloud quantum computing services to researchers looking for solutions to COVID-19. Its partners have also agreed to lend technical assistance to researchers. Read more...

D-Wave launches Leap 2 quantum cloud service with new tools

Paul Hill — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:42:01 +0000

D-Wave has announced a new service called Leap 2. It integrates tools that were requested by the users of the original Leap service. Leap 2 is available immediately on a bigger range of price points. Read more...

D-Wave announces next generation platform with 5000 qubits, due mid-2020

Paul Hill — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:04:01 +0000

D-Wave has announced its next generation platform that includes a processor with 5000 qubits. While the whole platform will be ready by mid-2020, some components will be ready earlier. Read more...

Google pushing hard to bring Quantum Computing to the mainstream

Dreyer Smit — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:30:01 +0000

With the theoretical limits of silicon based processors being tested each year, Google and other companies have been pushing hard to bring Quantum Computing to its data centers and clients. Read more...

Microsoft teams up with Rambus to focus on future computing

Paul Hill — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 08:44:01 +0000

Microsoft Research and Rambus have partnered up to further develop their collective understanding of, among other things, memory usage and optimization in quantum computing. Read more...