Brace yourselves, faster quantum computers are coming (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by Theresa , Tuesday, February 03, 2015, 06:15

1,152 qubit processor, designed to be used in quantum computers will be commercially available in March this year, quantum computing firm D-Wave Systems has announced.

Called ‘Washington’, this will be the most powerful commercially available quantum system yet.

“D-Wave is making fantastic progress in fabricating ever-larger processors,” Colin Williams, director of business development and strategic partnerships at D-Wave, told Nextbigfuture. “In fact, we will be releasing our new 1,152-qubit ‘Washington’ processor in March of this year.

Aside from the size, the processor has also seen improvements in noise and energy scale.

“However, size, (i.e. qubit count) is not the only aspect of the processor that has been improved. We have also lowered the noise and stretched the energy scale of the qubits (making them inherently more quantum mechanical) and we have strengthened our ability to create chains of qubits (making it easier to program the processor by locking qubits together to change the effective topology of the chip)”.

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