I don’t want to delve too deeply into this subject, since if you hit the link at the end of this post you will find a much more intelligent discussion of this story than I could give here, however there are a few things I would like to say about this article. This computer that d-wave has demonstrated is not ready for your desktop.

As you can see from this picture this thing won’t fit on your desk. It also has to be cooled to within a smidgen of absolute zero, colder than interstellar space. This is also a very early prototype, and while there is still much debate on what these researchers have actually accomplished, it is enough to say that they have designed a very new architecture that has the potential to scale up to something that is very powerful. And again, I don’t want to go down the rabbit hole of trying to explain Schroedinger’s bit, suffice it say, quantum computers are here, and it’s only going to get more interesting from here on out.

Hit the link to Ars for the full story