D-wave’s claim to fame is a Quantum Annealer, and that term itself is misleading as quantum annealing is strictly speaking a classical algorithm (albeit quantum

D-wave’s claim to fame is a Quantum Annealer, and that term itself is misleading as quantum annealing is strictly speaking a classical algorithm (albeit quantum-inspired) https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/11218/the-physical-implementation-of-quantum-annealing-algorithm https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/11218/the-physical-im...