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World's first commercially viable quantum computer?

Posted February 15, 2007 5:05 PM

From What's Next In Science & Technology:

The world's first commercially viable quantum computer was demonstrated yesterday in Silicon Valley by D-Wave Systems, Inc., a privately-held Canadian firm. Quantum computing offers the potential to create value in areas where problems or requirements exceed the capability of digital computing, the company said. But D-Wave explains that its new device is intended as a complement to conventional computers, to augment existing machines and their market, not as a replacement for them.

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Re: World's first commercially viable quantum computer?

02/17/2007 12:01 AM

What are the main NEW FEATURES of this computer technology?

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Re: World's first commercially viable quantum computer?

02/17/2007 11:49 AM

Well, this one's way beyond me. All I see is an amplifier, obviously necessary to bring their quantum results up a level or two to where the rest of the world can identify them, but nothing other than that.

The software description's pretty generic, most of the web site seems devoted to raising money - not a bad occupation in itself.

I guess I need to go back to school.

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Re: World's first commercially viable quantum computer?

03/15/2007 8:08 PM

Is this another PR hype like the "turbo" stickers on everyone's car, radio and bike, in the funky eighties?

...computational device based on quantum mechanics...

They're not revealing any of it's principles in the article. Say something for heaven's sake. Isn't my solar-cell calculator a kind of "computational device based on quantum mechanics" ?

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