BillionDollarBreaks – D-Wave Announces 1,200+ Qubit Advantage2(TM) Prototype, Strategic Collaboration with Deloitte Canada
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, today announced it has calibrated a 1,200+ qubit Advantage2(TM) prototype, which will soon be available in the company’s Leap(TM) real-time quantum cloud service. Developed with a lower-noise, multilayer superconducting integrated-circuit fabrication stack, the new prototype demonstrates significant performance gains on hard optimization problems and is expected to be particularly powerful for new use cases such as machine learning. “The new Advantage2 prototype represents a giant step up in performance,” said Mark W. Johnson, senior vice president…