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| D-Wave Demonstrates First Quantum Computer |
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – On Tuesday, members of D-Wave Systems, a Vancouver-based hardware firm, gathered at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to demonstrate what they claimed is the world's first commercially viable quantum computer : the "16-qubit" Orion.
Touted as a systems-level "proof-of-concept" machine, the Orion uses a new type of analog processor that taps into quantum mechanics, rather than using the conventional physics associated with today's digital processing, to drive the computation.
D-Wave maintained that its approach allows for the building of scalable processor architectures using many of the conventional processes and technologies employed in the semiconductor industry today. Furthermore, because Orion's processors are computationally equivalent to more standard devices, D-Wave says that any application can be developed for one type of quantum computer and then recast as an application for another.
Before jumping into the presentation Tuesday morning—what was to be the world's first demonstration of how a quantum machine can run various commercial applications— chief executive Herb Martin, made a few clarifications.
Paraphrasing (with a technological twist) a 1942 Winston Churchill speech given at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon in London, Martin reassured the audience that the advent of the D-Wave quantum computer does not in fact signal the end of digital computing. |
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