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A Working Quantum Computer in 3 Years?

Posted by timothy on from the not-with-my-quanta-you-don't dept.

prostoalex writes "Vancouver, BC-based D-Wave Systems got $17.5 mln from Draper Fisher Jurvetson to work on a preliminary version of a quantum computer, Technology Review reports. Delivery date? Within three years: 'It won't be a fully functional quantum computer of the sort long envisioned; but D-Wave is on track to produce a special-purpose, "noisy" piece of quantum hardware that could solve many of the physical-simulation problems that stump today's computers, says David Meyer, a mathematician working on quantum algorithms at the University of California, San Diego.'"

4 of 292 comments (clear)

  1. There's one now! by TrickFred · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's already one out there...

    http://darwinia.co.uk/

  2. Let me be the first to say... by JaF893 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

  3. YHBT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YHBT

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