D-Wave Systems Inc is a Canadian quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
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18 Facts About D-Wave Systems
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D-Wave Systems was the world's first company to sell computers to exploit quantum effects in their operation.
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In 2019, D-Wave Systems announced a 5000 qubit system available mid-2020, using their new Pegasus chip with 15 connections per qubit.
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However, D-Wave Systems announced plans in 2021 that they will work on universal gate-base quantum computers as well in the future.
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D-Wave Systems was founded by Haig Farris, Geordie Rose, Bob Wiens, and Alexandre Zagoskin .
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D-Wave Systems name refers to their first qubit designs, which used d-wave superconductors.
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D-Wave Systems operated as an offshoot from UBC, while maintaining ties with the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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D-Wave Systems collaborated with several universities and institutions, including UBC, IPHT Jena, Universite de Sherbrooke, University of Toronto, University of Twente, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Erlangen, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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In June 2014, D-Wave Systems announced a new quantum applications ecosystem with computational finance firm 1QB Information Technologies and cancer research group DNA-SEQ to focus on solving real-world problems with quantum hardware.
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The D-Wave Systems One was built on early prototypes such as D-Wave Systems's Orion Quantum Computer.
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In January 2017, D-Wave Systems released the D-Wave Systems 2000Q and an open source repository containing software tools for quantum annealers.
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D-Wave Systems operated from various locations in Vancouver, British Columbia, and laboratory spaces at UBC before moving to its current location in the neighboring suburb of Burnaby.
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D-Wave Systems maintains a list of peer-reviewed technical publications by their own scientists and others on their website.
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The processor used in the D-Wave Systems One, code-named "Rainier, " performs a single mathematical operation, discrete optimization.
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The D-Wave Systems One was claimed to be the world's first commercially available quantum computer system.
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In early 2012, D-Wave Systems revealed a 512-qubit quantum computer, code-named Vesuvius, which was launched as a production processor in 2013.
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In May 2013, Catherine McGeoch, a consultant for D-Wave Systems, published the first comparison of the technology against regular top-end desktop computers running an optimization algorithm.
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In February 2019 D-Wave Systems announced their next-generation Pegasus quantum processor chip, announcing that it would be "the world's most connected commercial quantum system, " with 15 connections per qubit instead of 6; that the next-generation system would use the Pegasus chip; that it would have more than 5000 qubits and reduced noise; and that it would be available in mid-2020.
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