D-Wave Systems

Canadian quantum computing company

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2025 D-Wave sold an Advantage system to Forschungszentrum Jülich, with scientists publishing research in Nature exploring quantum computer simulation of false vacuum decay.
2025 Alternative expected delivery timeframe for the Advantage 2 quantum computer system, marking a potential milestone in D-Wave's quantum computing development.
2025 D-Wave published a paper in Science journal describing a computational simulation of a magnetic material performed dramatically faster on a quantum computer, though some physicists questioned the claims.
2024 Expected delivery timeframe for the Advantage 2 quantum computer system, representing a significant technological advancement in D-Wave's quantum computing portfolio.
2021 D-Wave announced the next-generation quantum computer system Advantage2, with plans for delivery in late 2024 or early 2025. The system was expected to increase total qubits to over 7000 and transition to the Zephyr graph topology, expanding per-qubit connections to 20.
2021 D-Wave announced the next-generation Advantage 2 quantum computer system, with planned delivery in late 2024 or early 2025. The new system was expected to advance quantum computing capabilities by increasing the total number of qubits to over 7000 and adopting the Zephyr graph topology with increased per-qubit connections to 20.
2020 D-Wave delivered the Advantage quantum computer system, claiming a 10x speedup in time-to-solve compared to their previous 2000Q product offering.
February 2019 D-Wave announced their next-generation quantum computer system, the Advantage, which would increase the total number of qubits to 5760 and adopt a new Pegasus graph topology with increased per-qubit connections to 15.
2018 D-Wave launched the Leap quantum cloud service.
January 2017 D-Wave released the D-Wave 2000Q quantum computer and an open-source repository with software tools for quantum annealers, including Qbsolv for solving optimization problems.
September 28 2015 D-Wave 2X system was installed at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA Ames Research Center.
August 20 2015 D-Wave released the general availability of their D-Wave 2X quantum computer, featuring 1000 qubits in a Chimera graph architecture. The release was accompanied by a performance report comparing speeds with high-end single-threaded CPUs, highlighting a 15x speedup for general-purpose problems.
August 20 2015 D-Wave Systems announced the general availability of the D-Wave 2X system, a 1000-qubit+ quantum computer.
February 17 2014 D-Wave was featured on the cover of Time magazine, with an article describing the company's quantum computing approach and potential technological impact.
May 2013 NASA, Google, and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) launched a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab using the D-Wave Two 512-qubit quantum computer for research into machine learning.
May 11 2011 D-Wave Systems announced D-Wave One, the world's first commercially available quantum computer with a 128-qubit chipset using quantum annealing technology.

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