#D-Wave Breaks 1000 Qubit Quantum computing Barrier Today D-Wave Systems announced that it has broken the 1000 qubit barrier, developing a processor about double the size of D-Wave previous generation. According to D-Wave, this is a major technological and scientific achievement that will allow significantly more complex computational problems to be solved than was possible on any previous quantum computer. D-Wave quantum computer runs a quantum annealing algorithm to find the lowest points, corresponding to optimal or near optimal solutions, in a virtual nergy landscape. Every additional qubit doubles the search space of the processor. At 1000 qubits the new processor considers 21000 possibilities simultaneously, a search space which dwarfs the 2512 possibilities available to the 512-qubit D-Wave Two. n fact, the new search space contains far more possibilities than there are articles in the observable universe. As the only manufacturer of scalable quantum processors, D-Wave breaks new ground with every succeeding generation it develops. The new processors, comprising over 128,000 Josephson tunnel junctions, are believed to be the most complex superconductor integrated circuits ever successfully yielded. They are fabricated in part at D-Wave facilities in Palo alto, CA and at Cypress Semiconductor wafer foundry located in Bloomington, Minnesota. The 1000-qubit milestone is the result of intensive research and development by D-Wave and reflects a triumph over a variety of design challenges aimed at enhancing performance and boosting solution quality. Beyond the much larger number of qubits, other significant innovations include: A 1000 qubit processor will also be on display at the upcoming GEOINT conference in D-Wave booth,#10076. Sign up for our insidehpc Newsletter e
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