Google is teaming with a group of UCSB researchers, which has already demonstrated success with a new type of quantum architecture, to design and build its own quantum computing hardware. Google says it will continue its research with D-Wave Systems’ quantum computing system, too.
D-Wave Systems has raised $30 million to continue improving a technology that the company claims is the first commercial quantum computer. Debate over its quantum properties persist, but the company is working on things that could pay off regardless how the system is ultimately labeled.
DNA-SEQ and 1QBit, two startups working on cancer research and financial modeling, respectively, have partnered with quantum computer manufacturer D-Wave Systems to…
D-Wave Systems believes it has a real quantum computer and that future generations of its processor will prove what it’s capable of. What’s more, the company plans to deliver all the benefits of quantum computer via API.
The leader of the University of Bristol team behind the development said he hopes to see quantum computing devices within a few years that rival modern computers on specialized tasks.
It’s not quite the same as the “Star Trek” style of moving something from point A to point B, but quantum teleportation could have big applications for communication, computing and security.
Quantum computing is still far off, but investors at the QWave Fund aren’t waiting. They’re funding startups with innovations in materials science and physics.