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D-Wave Systems, Inc. is a quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia. On May 11, 2011, D-Wave System announced D-Wave One, labeled “the world’s first commercially available quantum computer,” operating on a 128 qubit chip-set using quantum annealing to solve optimization problems. Discover how this quantum computer works.