{"id":128571,"date":"2021-10-05T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/d-wave-plans-to-build-a-gate-model-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T18:22:20","slug":"d-wave-plans-to-build-a-gate-model-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/d-wave-plans-to-build-a-gate-model-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"D-Wave plans to build a gate-model quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/d-wave-plans-to-build-a-gate-model-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more than 20 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/\">D-Wave<\/a> has been synonymous with quantum annealing. Its early bet on this technology allowed it to become the world\u2019s first company to sell quantum computers, but that also somewhat limited the real-world problems its hardware could solve, given that quantum annealing works especially well for optimization problems like protein folding or route planning. But as the company announced at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qubits.com\/schedule\">Qubits<\/a> conference today, a superconducting gate-model quantum computer \u2014 of the kind IBM and others currently offer \u2014 is now also on its roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>D-Wave believes the combination of annealing, gate-model quantum computing and classic machines is what its businesses\u2019 users will need to get the most value from this technology. \u201cLike we did when we initially chose to pursue annealing, we\u2019re looking ahead,\u201d the company notes in today\u2019s announcement. \u201cWe\u2019re anticipating what our customers need to drive practical business value, and we know error-corrected gate-model quantum systems with practical application value will be required for another important part of the quantum application market: simulating quantum systems. This is an application that\u2019s particularly useful in fields like materials science and pharmaceutical research.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 20 years, D-Wave has been synonymous with quantum annealing. Its early bet on this technology allowed it to become the world\u2019s first company to sell quantum computers, but that also somewhat limited the real-world problems its hardware could solve, given that quantum annealing works especially well for optimization problems like protein folding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}