D-Wave Quantum Inc. has 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.
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. 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 mission is to help customers realize the value of quantum computing today while shaping the quantum-driven industrial and societal advancements of tomorrow.
This breakthrough represents a significant step toward practical quantum computing by addressing one of the major technical challenges in scaling gate-model systems. The reduction in wiring complexity through on-chip cryogenic control could accelerate the development of quantum computers capable of solving problems beyond the reach of classical computers. For more information about D-Wave's technology and services, visit https://www.dwavequantum.com.
