Google Backs Quantum Computing in Hardware Deal With D-Wave
- D-Wave agreement gives Google, NASA access to new processors
- Announcement follows Alibaba forming quantum research lab
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Google Inc. is betting on a future when quantum computing won’t be an esoteric technology anymore.
The Web company, along with collaborators NASA and the Universities Space Research Association, has signed a commercial agreement with quantum computer maker D-Wave Inc. that will give them access to new quantum processors as they are developed for as many as seven years, D-Wave said in a statement Monday. The deals builds on on an earlier hardware agreement from May 2013.