D-Wave announces first commercial sale of Advantage quantum computer
Name of customer has not been disclosed
Name of customer has not been disclosed
List is largely unchanged since it was last published in 2023
Claims chips are 100x faster than “current state of the art” offerings
System is housed at company’s Green Data Center in Lombardy, Italy
Company says the system has achieved 99.5 percent median two-qubit gate fidelity
Participated in more investment rounds than Amazon and Microsoft
Plus a round up of other recent supercomputing news
Will be deployed by the end of 2026
Plus a roundup of other quantum computing news
Three-pronged strategy comes with CA$2bn investment pledge
IT vendor walks away from lucrative contract
And Nvidia CUDA-Q now integrated with Amazon Braket
Massive expansion of data center planned
Will be coupled with JURECA DC supercomputer at Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Plus a roundup of other supercomputing news
Company takes over former DXC site outside Milan
Machine will be installed in Q1 2025
And other quantum updates
After avoiding NYSE delisting
Another part of the IT services company targeted for nationalization
Will be used to expand research into AI workloads for national security missions
Can provide up to 260 Exaflops of FP8 performance
Optimism for future still ahead of current profit/loss numbers
And other Microsoft updates from Ignite 2024