Google Finds D-Wave Machine To Be 10^8 Times Faster Than Simulated Annealing

We found that for problem instances involving nearly 1000 binary variables, quantum annealing significantly outperforms its classical counterpart, simulated annealing. It is more than 10^8 times faster than simulated annealing running on a single core.
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