{"id":91540,"date":"2019-06-02T12:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/d-wave-previews-quantum-computing-platform-with-over-5000-qubits"},"modified":"2019-06-02T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:03:28","slug":"d-wave-previews-quantum-computing-platform-with-over-5000-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/d-wave-previews-quantum-computing-platform-with-over-5000-qubits","title":{"rendered":"D-Wave previews quantum computing platform with over 5,000 qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/d-wave-previews-quantum-computing-platform-with-over-5000-qubits.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/\">D-Wave Systems<\/a> today unveiled the roadmap for its 5,000-qubit quantum computer. Components of D-Wave\u2019s next-generation quantum computing platform will come to market between now and mid-2020 via ongoing quantum processing unit (QPU) and cloud-delivered software updates. The complete system will be available through cloud access and for on-premise installation in mid-2020.<\/p>\n<p>Binary digits (bits) are the basic units of information in classical computing while quantum bits (qubits) make up quantum computing. Bits are always in a state of 0 or 1, while qubits can be in a state of 0, 1, or a superposition of the two. Quantum computing leverages qubits to perform computations that would be much more difficult for a classical computer. Based in Burnaby, Canada, D-Wave has been developing its own quantum computers that use <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_annealing\">quantum annealing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>D-Wave is mainly focused on solving optimization problems, so its quantum computers can\u2019t be directly compared to the competition. Indeed, many have <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/12\/27\/d-wave-a-multimillion-dollar-sham-or-quantum-breakthrough-interview\/\">questioned<\/a> whether D-Wave\u2019s systems have quantum properties, and thus performance that classical computers can\u2019t match. In the meantime, D-Wave continues to improve and sell its systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/02\/27\/d-wave-previews-quantum-computing-platform-with-over-5000-qubits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D-Wave Systems today unveiled the roadmap for its 5,000-qubit quantum computer. Components of D-Wave\u2019s next-generation quantum computing platform will come to market between now and mid-2020 via ongoing quantum processing unit (QPU) and cloud-delivered software updates. The complete system will be available through cloud access and for on-premise installation in mid-2020. Binary digits (bits) are [\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-91540","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\/91540","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=91540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}