NASA backs quantum computing claim by D-Wave
Engineers at NASA’s Microdevices Lab manufactured a quantum chip for Canadian outfit D-Wave, which claims it will start renting time on the quantum computer in 2008. If this all turns out to be true it is really cool. I wonder how much it would cost to rent this sucker for a full 24 hours would be?
D-Wave claimed to demonstrate a prototype quantum computer during a news conference Feb. 13 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. But industry experts became skeptical when D-Wave revealed it had left the computer at its Vancouver office, then conducted the demonstration over a Web link. The computer that D-Wave used for the Feb. 13 demonstration had a chip capable of running at 16 qubits, Martin said. The company plans to scale its machine much larger in the next 18 months, reaching 32 qubits by the end of 2007, then 512 qubits and 1,024 qubits by the end of 2008.
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