{"id":88252,"date":"2019-02-28T17:45:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/d-wave-announces-its-next-gen-quantum-computing-platform"},"modified":"2019-02-28T17:45:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:45:45","slug":"d-wave-announces-its-next-gen-quantum-computing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/d-wave-announces-its-next-gen-quantum-computing-platform","title":{"rendered":"D-Wave announces its next-gen quantum computing platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/d-wave-announces-its-next-gen-quantum-computing-platform.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/home\">D-Wave<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/d-wave-systems\">well-funded<\/a> quantum computing company, today announced its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 in the company\u2019s current system. The new platform will come to market in mid-2020.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s new so-called Pegasus topology connects every qubit to 15 other qubits, up from six in its current topology. With this, developers can use the machine to solve larger problems with fewer physical qubits \u2014 or larger problems in general.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that D-Wave\u2019s qubits are different from those of the company\u2019s competitors like Rigetti, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/ibm\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"ibm\">IBM<\/a> and Google, with shorter coherence times and a system that mostly focuses on solving optimization problems. To do that, D-Wave produces lots of qubits, but in a relatively high-noise environment. That means you can\u2019t compare D-Wave\u2019s qubit count to that of its competitors (with D-Wave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/sites\/default\/files\/14-1025A-D_A_Head-to-Head_Comparison_of_D-Wave_and_Rigetti%20QPUs.pdf\">claiming<\/a> the superiority of its machine for certain problems), which are building universal quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/02\/27\/d-wave-announces-its-next-gen-quantum-computing-platform\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/02\/27\/d-wave-announces-its-next-...-platform\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D-Wave, the well-funded quantum computing company, today announced its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 in the company\u2019s current system. The new platform will come to market in mid-2020. The company\u2019s new so-called Pegasus topology connects every qubit to 15 other qubits, up from six in its current topology. With this, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88252","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\/88252","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}