Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Feb 2007 22:12 UTC
A Canadian start-up says it will demonstrate a working commercial quantum computer in Mountain View next week, years ahead of many experts' predictions. Venture capital-funded to the tune of USD 20m, Vancouver-based D-Wave says it has built a quantum computer with 16 qubits - the quantum world's version of a digital bit, but which simultaneously encodes 1 and 0, so can carry more information and solve problems more quickly.
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2005-11-05
I wonder whether it will work. OTOH maybe even wondering whether it will work is enough to prevent it from working at all.
You can say one thing for sure, though: 20 million dollars buys a lot of cats.