🔬 Science Aug 5, 2026 · John Timmer

D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race

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D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race
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D-Wave is a bit of an oddity in the quantum computing space, having been founded back in the last century. And its initial offering wasn't a quantum computer like those being developed by IBM or Google. Instead, the company built what's now called a quantum annealer, a machine that isn't general-purpose but can solve a large class of optimization problems. While the hardware shares some similarities with the qubits used in gate-based quantum computers, it operates in a fundamentally different wa

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