D-Wave wants more real-world deployments for its quantum computer

D-Wave is ready to move its quantum computer out of limited use and into more real-world deployments. Quantum computing has been researched for decades and D-Wave deployed what was considered the first such computer in 2011. A handful of D-Wave's quantum computers are now being used by Google, NASA and Lockheed Martin for artificial intelligence, image recognition and machine learning. D-Wave now has a pipeline of government, commercial and intelligence customers waiting for the company's faster quantum computers, which will start rolling out later this year, said CEO Vern Brownell. The company will release faster processors over the next two years that will be central to the new quantum computers, Brownell said.