BillionDollarBreaks – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) Achieves Quantum Supremacy in Useful, Real-World Problem
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave”) announced a breakthrough in quantum computing, demonstrating that its Advantage2™ annealing quantum computer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful classical supercomputers in solving complex magnetic materials simulation problems. Published in Science, the study validates D-Wave’s achievement as the first quantum computational supremacy demonstration on a useful, real-world problem. The company’s technology solved a problem in minutes that would take the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory nearly one million years. The Advantage2 prototype quantum computer used in this study is now available to customers through D-Wave’s Leap™ cloud…