Quantum Annealing - Implementations

Implementations

In 2011, D-Wave Systems announced the first commercial quantum annealer on the market by the name D-Wave One. The company claims this system uses a 128 qubit processor chipset. On May 25, 2011 D-Wave announced that Lockheed Martin Corporation entered into an agreement to purchase a D-Wave One system. On October 28, 2011 USC's Information Sciences Institute took delivery of Lockheed's D-Wave One, where it has become the first operational commercial "quantum computer".

D-Wave's architecture differs from traditional quantum computers in that it has noisy, high error-rate qubits, since it is designed specifically for quantum annealing.