World’s First Commercial Quantum Computer

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VANCOUVER, B.C. or MT. VIEW, CA – February 13, 2007 – The world’s first commercially viable quantum computer was unveiled and demonstrated today in Silicon Valley by D-Wave Systems, Inc., a privately-held Canadian firm headquartered near Vancouver.



Quantum computing offers the potential to create value in areas where problems or requirements exceed the capability of digital computing, the company said. But D-Wave explains that its new device is intended as a complement to conventional computers, to augment existing machines and their market, not as a replacement for them. Read More (http://www.dwavesys.com/index.php?mact=News, cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=4&cntnt01origid=15&cntnt01returnid=21)

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This is a more Faster than we have now!

[puting tainga]

Thanks for sharing this.

We are living in a age when the computer is being developed at a pace unimaginable decades ago.

The success of quantum computer has been predicted but I am really amazed and happy to learn that mankind has just stepped forward to a new generation of computers.

In short, farewell to bits and welcome qubits.

The next thing we want is the material.
Not the metal computers we have today, but the protein computer, possibility of which has been predicted years ago. (Though primitive lab model exists no commercial use is successful so far.)

[michael_jp]

Quantum computing could be the 6th generation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PPTMooresLawai .jpg) of digital computing technology. But, what amazes me is not the only the high speed and low power consumption, but how data is processed. In today's digital computing, data is process only as 0 or 1, But in quantum computing the qubit can exist in any combination of its states and there lies the incredible mind-blowing speed in processing information.
Which will lead to broad applications we never think of.....like truely unbreakable encryption because of quantum method of encryption, intelligence information gathering/simulation, etc.

[goma_23]

a breakthrough indeed, but some are already questioning it.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/15/quantum.computer.ap/index.html