D-wave Sys Announces D-wave One, World’s First Commercially Available Quantum Computer

D-wave One

D-wave Sys Announces D-wave One, World’s First Commercially Available Quantum Computer

D-wave One was a 128 Qubit chipset system that uses Quantum Annealing. Quantum Annealing is a metaheuristic approach to find a global minimum. The processor used in it was named Rainier, and it performs a single mathematical function, Discrete Optimization. The computer was quoted worth $ 10 million. Read more

May, 2011