The UNSW team has struck a A$ 83 million deal between UNSW, Telstra, Commonwealth Bank and the Australian and New South Wales governments to develop, by 2022, a 10 - qubit prototype silicon quantum integrated circuit — the first step in building the world's first quantum computer in silicon. (sciencedaily.com)
The team used a D - Wave 2X computer, an advanced model from the Burnaby, Canada — based company that created the world's first quantum computer in 2007. (sciencemag.org)
Their goal, audaciously named quantum supremacy, is to build the first quantum computer capable of performing a task no classical computer can. (newscientist.com)