For already quite some time on Google and NASA decided to bet on quantum computing, acquiring one of the most important companies of that time as it was D-Wave Systems. After all this time and get quite remarkable progress has just been announced that next year they will be ready to present a new version of D-Wave – 2 x, a model that will feature no less than 2,000 quantum bits, known as qubits, which is double the available on the current computer.
Thanks precisely to this evolution, according to Jeremy Hilton, senior Vice President of D-Wave systems, said talk about a quantum computer which will be between 500 and 1000 times faster than the current. No doubt figures more than surprising, especially if take into account that the current D-Wave was already considered as one of the most powerful computers in the world thanks to its ability to perform a hundred million times faster than conventional computers.
D-Wave will be in 2017 a quantum computer between 500 and 1000 times faster than the current model
To get to this point, D-Wave recognizes that it has been needed got momentum because the company was acquired by Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. On the other hand there are that have in has the factor competition because, currently, there are several groups of research and company private that are working to daily in the construction of best computers quantum as can be IBM.
We have another clear example of the foregoing at the University of Maryland, where recently have managed to design the first programmable quantum computer or the achievement of the manipulation of the quantum States, something that could improve the systems of cryptography and quantum computing.
