D-Wave Systems

D-Wave Systems, Inc. is a quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. On May 11, 2011, D-Wave Systems announced D-Wave One, described as "the world's first commercially available quantum computer," operating on a 128-qubit chipset using quantum annealing to solve optimization problems. In May 2013 it was announced that a collaboration between NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association launched a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab based on the D-Wave Two 512-qubit quantum computer that would be used for research into machine learning, among other fields of study. The D-Wave One was built on early prototypes such as D-Wave's Orion Quantum Computer. The prototype was a 16-qubit quantum annealing processor, demonstrated on February 13, 2007 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. D-Wave demonstrated what they claimed to be a 28-qubit quantum annealing processor on November 12, 2007. The chip was fabricated at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory microdevices lab in Pasadena, California.