Some of us may remember contributing to D-Wave's Aqua@Home project.
Add lots of subsequent research and experimentation, some positive results and you get serious corporate investment.
Building on that investment, D-Wave will be rolling out a 512 qubit machine in 2013
http://www.extremetech.com/computing...not-be-quantum
PS - If you were wondering: No. None of us can afford one.![]()