Lockheed Martin
US aerospace and defense company; purchased the first D-Wave One quantum computer for research into optimization problems.
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D-Wave Systems Announces D-Wave One, a 128-Qubit Quantum Annealing Computer Available for Commercial Purchase
In May 2011, D-Wave Systems announced the D-Wave One, a 128-qubit quantum annealing processor codenamed Rainier, marketed as the first commercially available quantum computer. Lockheed Martin purchased a system for approximately US $10 million, making it the first known commercial transaction for a quantum computing system.