"During mid-February, Canadian firm D-Wave Systems unveiled and demonstrated what it calls “the world's first commercially viable quantum computer.” The demonstration of the technology was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, but the actual hardware remained in Burnaby, BC.
The via-satellite demonstration, coupled with the lack of ivory tower support from academia, scientists quickly expressed their skepticism about D-Wave's claims. Much skepticism of the Canadian company’s claims may soon be washed away, as the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed last week that it had a hand in building a special chip used in D-Wave’s demonstration, according to IDG News Service.
Specifically, the relationship between D-Wave and NASA is one of designer and manufacturer. D-Wave designed the quantum-capable chips and contracted NASA to build them. Requests for aid in building supercomputers are nothing out of the ordinary for NASA’s Microdevices Laboratory, a unit of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which has experience dealing with sub-micrometer dimensions and ultra-low temperatures in quantum computing."
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