Dwave is indicating 2000-4000 qubits for quantum computer by end of 2008
Dwave Systems closed a $17M financing round as of the end of January 2008. These funds will be used primarily to push the level of integration of our chips into the low thousands of qubits by the end of the year.
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kurzweils_brain    1 votes   Monday, February 04, 2008 at 2:24 PM
This seems like a technology to watch. Whether it turns out to be vapourware or not remains to be seen.
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wal    1 votes   Monday, February 04, 2008 at 3:01 PM
This is hugely interesting and definitely something to keep an eye on. I wounder what quantum programming languages will look like?
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brianwang    1 votes   Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 11:36 AM
This particular device does not have a programming language. What happens is that the numbers and connections that represent something like a linear programming array are input by adjusting electrical characteristics of nodes, then the process is put in motion to generate presumably the correct values. They run it several times with the assumption that the most common answer is the energy state minimum that holds the right answer. This is an analog process. Analog set up of an input array and then readout of the answer array.
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