D-Wave wins up to $100M from US to build quantum systems
D-Wave has been awarded up to $100 million through the U.S. CHIPS Act to expand its quantum computing hardware efforts. The funding supports its dual-platform strategy, covering both quantum annealing and gate-model systems.
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What this could mean
- 0–2 yearsPlausible
D-Wave could use the federal funding to bring a gate-model processor to its Leap cloud service within two years, giving existing annealing customers an on-ramp to circuit-model workloads.
The CHIPS award removes much of the capital risk from parallel gate-model development, and D-Wave already operates superconducting fabrication and cloud delivery infrastructure. It still has to demonstrate competitive gate fidelities, but the path depends on engineering progress rather than new physics.
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