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D-Wave has a long, long history of making grandiose claims and completely failing to back them up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems#Criticism http:/

D-Wave has a long, long history of making grandiose claims and completely failing to back them up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems#Criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems#Criticism All this press release proves is that they got a defense contractor to spend $10 million dollars.

ddkrone 15y ago
Not just any defense contractor, Lockheed Martin. They're practically another branch of the government and wouldn't exist without tax payers. So technically US tax payers just bought a 10 million dollar toy.
keyle 15y ago
I agree. And the article just writes so much marketing gospel you have to wonder if they even understand what they're writing.
Devilboy 15y ago
They've recently published a paper in Nature that shows an 8 qubit version of their adiabatic device really is a quantum computer so this is not complete bullshit anymore. We'll see what Lockheed says about the device. Maybe in the next few years a DWave will make a bigger quantum computer and we'll see if Lockheed keeps buying. This looks like the 'real thing' although they've not yet figured out how to run, for example, Shor's algorithm on an adabiatic QC yet. Also 128 qubits is not enough to tackle problems intractable to current classical computers. And finally this device by DWave is hardwired to perform only one type of optimization search, it's not a 'general purpose' computer yet.
cdibona 15y ago
Actually, if you read the story, it says that they delivered one to Lockheed, and that the cost of a D-Wave one is 10m, not that Lockheed paid D-Wave 10m. They might have, but this story isn't that conclusive.
cheez 15y ago
I worked with someone who worked there. It's not all bullshit but one of the founders has got big dreams/plans and so comes off as a bullshit artist. Even my former colleague says he thought a lot of it was a little iffy but he never doubted they'd eventually get there. The stories were awesome.
raarky 15y ago
i guess it's at least a step into sort of the right direction of quantum computing :)

ddkrone 15y ago

Not just any defense contractor, Lockheed Martin. They're practically another branch of the government and wouldn't exist without tax payers. So technically US tax payers just bought a 10 million dollar toy.

keyle 15y ago

I agree. And the article just writes so much marketing gospel you have to wonder if they even understand what they're writing.

Devilboy 15y ago

They've recently published a paper in Nature that shows an 8 qubit version of their adiabatic device really is a quantum computer so this is not complete bullshit anymore. We'll see what Lockheed says about the device. Maybe in the next few years a DWave will make a bigger quantum computer and we'll see if Lockheed keeps buying. This looks like the 'real thing' although they've not yet figured out how to run, for example, Shor's algorithm on an adabiatic QC yet. Also 128 qubits is not enough to tackle problems intractable to current classical computers. And finally this device by DWave is hardwired to perform only one type of optimization search, it's not a 'general purpose' computer yet.

cdibona 15y ago

Actually, if you read the story, it says that they delivered one to Lockheed, and that the cost of a D-Wave one is 10m, not that Lockheed paid D-Wave 10m. They might have, but this story isn't that conclusive.

cheez 15y ago

I worked with someone who worked there. It's not all bullshit but one of the founders has got big dreams/plans and so comes off as a bullshit artist. Even my former colleague says he thought a lot of it was a little iffy but he never doubted they'd eventually get there. The stories were awesome.

raarky 15y ago

i guess it's at least a step into sort of the right direction of quantum computing :)