Your point? IMO it's an intriguing but completely unproven technology. In contrast, GPUs (a newer technology than quantum computers) waltzed out of the gate w

Your point? IMO it's an intriguing but completely unproven technology. In contrast, GPUs (a newer technology than quantum computers) waltzed out of the gate with 100x to 1,000x speedups over Pentium IV CPUs barely a decade into their existence. If D-Wave had shown anything like that, it would be a billion dollar company well on its way to disrupting NVIDIA and Intel in HPC. Instead, after nearly 30 years since the concept and 15 years after D-Wave's founding and ~$100M of VC, it's still just an expensive toy. https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/category/physics/page/4/ https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/category/physics/page/4/ All that said, hiring its best loyal opposition to fix that is the smartest thing I've seen Google do in a long time. And just to end on a positive note, here's a great book on the subject that explains the promise of the technology in great detail: http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-Anniversary-Edition/dp/1107002176 http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-Annive... And here's another reason perhaps why Google is leaning so hard on this technology: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/papers/quantumrbm.pdf http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/papers/quantumrbm.pdf