D-Wave Systems Releases 5000+ Qubit Quantum Annealer

D-Wave Systems has released a Quantum Annealer with over 5000 qubits. They have over 250 applications that can be run on the system. The chip uses over 1 million superconducting Josephson junctions. Venture Capitalist billionaire, Steve Jurvetson, had been on the board of D-Wave for 17 years. He provides a chart showing the qubit scaling that D-Wave has achieved. D-Wave was doubling qubits every year for the first decade but have been doubling every two years over the past seven years. There is no specific reason for 2013 to be a breakpoint in the slope. A few more product releases

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