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This is a) fake or b) a scam.
by DandelionRex 15y ago
This is a) fake or b) a scam.
- Bud 15y agoYes, some quick googling appears to show that they've been pushing similar scams since 2007 or so: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=d-wave+hoax http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8... They claimed to have a 16-qubit machine then, whereas a recent (May 2) New Yorker article revealed that Oxford's research lab quantum computer is only an 8-qubit machine, and that's in 2011. Yale has built one and it's only 2-qubit.
- sanswork 15y agoor maybe neither. Dwave has been around for a while and while the question is still out on how useful their devices actually are they have been publicly demonstrated and available for at least a few years. Google has even used their machines though I think just for research purposes.
- Devilboy 15y agoDWave just published a paper in Nature that shows that they have built a 8 qubit quantum device. This could be legit. However even if what they say is 100% true and correct, it's still not a 'general' quantum computer, it's only wired for one kind of optimization problem, and it's only 128 qubits which will not allow you to do things current computers can not yet do. You need closer to 1000 qubits for that.