A Closer Look At D-Wave’s Gate-Model Roadmap

Dual-Rail Qubits, the Quantum Circuits Bet, and the Race to Logical Qubits

D-Wave spent two decades as the company that did not build gate-model machines. It made its name on quantum annealing, sold annealing systems commercially, and largely sat out the race that IBM, Google, Quantinuum and a string of startups were running toward universal, gate-based quantum computers. That posture has now been reversed, and it was reversed through an acquisition rather than a pivot in D-Wave’s own labs.