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D-Wave Google's quantum computer is 100 million times faster than your laptop But is it a true quantum computer?  DAVID NIELD 10 DEC 2015       Google has been  sharing more details  about its quantum computing project, which it runs in partnership with NASA. The tech company says its mammoth D-Wave 2X quantum computing machine has been figuring out algorithms at 100,000,000 times the speed that a traditional computer chip can, and that could make a huge difference in the processing power at our disposal in the future. In  quantum computing  (closely linked to quantum mechanics), quantum bits (or 'qubits') can simultaneously hold values of 1, 0, or both, rather than being set to 1 or 0 as traditional electronic bits are. The qubits are tiny particles suspended in temperatures just above absolute zero, and as more qubits are added, the available processing power goes up exponentially. Big data probl...

LEARN MORE Microprocessor Microarchitecture CPU Quiz How Quantum Computers Work The massive amount of processing power generated by computer manufacturers  has not yet been able to quench our thirst for speed and computing capacity. In 1947, American computer engineer  Howard Aiken said that just six electronic digital  computers  would satisfy the computing needs of the United States. Others have made similar errant predictions about the amount of computing power that would support our growing technological needs. Of course, Aiken didn't count on the large amounts of data generated by scientific research, the proliferation of  personal computers  or the emergence of the  Internet , which have only fueled our need for more, more and more computing power. Will we ever have the amount of computing power we need or want? If, as Moore's Law  states, the number of transistors on a  microprocessor  continues to...

Introduction to the D-Wave Quantum Hardware How D-Wave processors are built, and how they use the physics of spin systems to implement quantum computation Contents SECTION 1: Inside the processor 1.1 - The building blocks of QC 1.2 - A fabric of programmable elements 1.3 - Support circuitry: Addressing, programming and reading the qubits 1.4 - Manufacturing quantum processors SECTION 2: Outside the processor 2.1 - The processor packaging 2.2 - Computer cooling 2.3 - Computer shielding and wiring 2.4 - Computer form factor 2.5 - Cloud based access SECTION 3 3.1 - The future of the hardware The aim of this document is to describe how a quantum computer is physically built, how quantum bits and their associated circuitry are created, addressed, and controlled, and what is happening inside the computer when programmers send information to a D-Wave quantum machine. The material here is written using very high level concepts and is designed t...