There’s PCs, then there’s QCs
p2pnet.net News:- Quantum computers within three years, eh?
That’s the plan, says Canada’s D-Wave, a new company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was spun out of the UBC (University of British Columbia) in 1999 to commercialize superconductor-based quantum computer processors.
D-Wave designs and builds superconductor-based software programmable Custom Integrated Circuits (ICs) which form the heart of a quantum computing system designed to deliver, “massively more powerful and faster computing services to a variety of industries”.
Its first QC won’t be of the sort long envisioned; says Technology Review, “but D-Wave is on track to produce a special-purpose, ‘noisy’ piece of quantum hardware that could solve many of the physical-simulation problems that stump today’s computers, says David Meyer, a mathematician working on quantum algorithms at the University of California, San Diego”.
D-Wave plans to complete a prototype device by the end of 2006, and a version capable of solving commercial problems could be ready by 2008, president and ceo Geordie Rose is quoted as saying.
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Technology Review – Quantum Calculation , July, 2005
