{"id":33778,"date":"2017-01-24T17:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/d-waves-15-million-quantum-computer-runs-a-staggering-2000-qubits"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:50:20","slug":"d-waves-15-million-quantum-computer-runs-a-staggering-2000-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/d-waves-15-million-quantum-computer-runs-a-staggering-2000-qubits","title":{"rendered":"D-Wave\u2019s $15 million quantum computer runs a staggering 2,000 qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/d-waves-15-million-quantum-computer-runs-a-staggering-2000-qubits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For D-Wave, the path to quantum computers being widely accepted is similar to the history of today\u2019s computers. The first chips came more than 30 years ago, and Microsoft\u2019s Basic expanded the software infrastructure around PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers are a new type of computer that can be significantly faster than today\u2019s PCs. They are still decades away from replacing PCs and going mainstream, but more advanced hardware and use models are still emerging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of that is unfolding and will have a similar dramatic change in the computing landscape,\u201d Vern Brownell, D-Wave\u2019s CEO, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3161034\/computers\/d-waves-quantum-computer-runs-a-staggering-2000-qubits.html\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3161034\/computers\/d-waves-qua...ubits.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For D-Wave, the path to quantum computers being widely accepted is similar to the history of today\u2019s computers. The first chips came more than 30 years ago, and Microsoft\u2019s Basic expanded the software infrastructure around PCs. Quantum computers are a new type of computer that can be significantly faster than today\u2019s PCs. They are still [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65293,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778\/revisions\/65293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}