This year should also see the first commercial ‘universal' quantum computing service go live, with IBM giving customers access to one of its quantum computers over the cloud for a fee. Canadian company D-Wave already provides cloud access to one of its machines, but its quantum computers are not universal, as they can only solve certain optimization problems.
But despite this apparent impetus, the technology has a major challenge to overcome. Programming these devices is much harder than programming conventional computers.
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