What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware?

Re:What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware? by fsh on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:10PM (#34220392)

This is a very uncritical article that basically relies on marketing material of two companies (POLARISqb and SavantX). Most people in the QC field are extremely sceptical about D-Wave, since there is no conclusive demonstration that their system has any advantage over optimized classical algorithms.

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Re:What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware? by psychphysic on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:26PM (#34220672)

I'm an outsider but still sceptical as NASA and Google turned to Dwave (circa 2013) and we saw pretty much nothing since.

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Re:What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware? by vbezhenar on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:06PM (#34224326)

If Dwave managed to sell snake oil to NASA and Google, they have the best sales in the world.

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Re:What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware? by oldgradstudent on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:25AM (#34233532)

This is a rumor I've heard at the time. Take it with a massive grain of salt, it could be complete bullshit.

Google purchased the D-Wave machines as a retention attempt of a few employees (probably former physicists) that were threatening to leave. The understanding was that they could play with the machines in their "20%".

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Re:What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware? by halJordan on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:51PM (#34223477)

I remember a couple of years ago there was a kerfuffle about how Ars chose articles to write. I certainly don't remember the specifics, but it seemed like advertisers could commission puff pieces on a topic as a sort of a "rising tide lifts all boats" for whoever contracted the advertiser. This was how they claimed to avoid ethical concerns for writing the puff pieces.

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