D-Wave Quantum Inc. recently announced a breakthrough in gate-model quantum computing with the successful demonstration of scalable on-chip cryogenic control of qubits. This industry-first milestone advances the development of commercially viable gate-model quantum computers by significantly reducing the wiring required to control large numbers of qubits without degrading qubit fidelity. The achievement validates that the on-chip cryogenic control technology D-Wave developed for its commercial annealing quantum processing units can also be applied to its gate-model architectures.
In D-Wave annealing systems, the control technology uses multiplexed digital-to-analog converters to control tens of thousands of qubits and couplers with just 200 bias wires. The same control technology can also reduce gate-model wiring complexity while maintaining qubit fidelity, enabling large-scale, practical gate-model QPUs. D-Wave is the world's first and only dual-platform quantum computing company, building and delivering annealing and gate model quantum computing technology to address customers' full set of complex computational problems.
More than 100 organizations trust D-Wave with their toughest computational challenges. With over 200 million problems submitted to their quantum systems to date, customers apply the technology to address use cases spanning optimization, artificial intelligence, research and more. The company's quantum computers feature QPUs with sub-second response times and can be deployed on-premises or accessed through their quantum cloud service, which offers 99.9% availability and uptime. Learn more about realizing the value of quantum computing today and how they're shaping the quantum-driven industrial and societal advancements of tomorrow at https://www.dwavequantum.com.
This breakthrough matters because it addresses one of the fundamental challenges in scaling quantum computers: the wiring bottleneck. Traditional quantum computing architectures require extensive external wiring that becomes increasingly complex and problematic as qubit counts grow, often degrading qubit performance through heat and interference. D-Wave's on-chip cryogenic control technology represents a significant step toward practical, large-scale quantum computers that could solve complex problems beyond the reach of classical computers. The implications extend across multiple industries including pharmaceuticals, materials science, finance, and artificial intelligence, where quantum computing promises to accelerate discovery and optimization processes.
