---
title: "D-Wave Systems Breaks the 1000 Qubit Quantum Computing Barrier"
description: "D-Wave announces that it has broken the 1000 qubit barrier with a processor about double the size of D-Wave’s previous generation and far exceeding the number of qubits ever developed."
date: "2015-06-22"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Kevin Woods"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kwoods"
url: "https://futurism.com/d-wave-systems-breaks-the-1000-qubit-quantum-computing-barrier"
categories:
  - "Computing"
  - "Quantum Computing"
  - "Robots and Machines"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "computing"
---

# D-Wave Systems Breaks the 1000 Qubit Quantum Computing Barrier

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- D-Wave’s quantum computer runs a quantum annealing algorithm to find the lowest points, corresponding to optimal or near optimal solutions, in a virtual “energy landscape.” Every additional qubit doubles the search space of the processor.
- At 1000 qubits, the new processor considers 21000possibilities simultaneously, a search space which dwarfs the 2512 possibilities available to the 512-qubit D-Wave Two. ‪In fact, the new search space contains far more possibilities than there are ‪particles in the observable universe.
- “Breaking the 1000 qubit barrier marks the culmination of years of research and development by our scientists, engineers and manufacturing team,” said D-Wave CEO Vern Brownell. “It is a critical step toward bringing the promise of quantum computing to bear on some of the most challenging technical, commercial, scientific, and national defense problems that organizations face.”