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QPU wafers are fabricated by SkyWater Technology in Bloomington, Minnesota under a partnership dating back roughly a decade; final assembly, cryo integration, and testing happen in Burnaby. In February 2025 Forschungszentrum Julich (JUNIQ) became the first HPC center to purchase a D-Wave Advantage with an Advantage2 upgrade path, and while corporate HQ and U.S. R&D are relocating to Boca Raton by end of 2026, Burnaby is being retained as the quantum manufacturing base.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Significance","value":"First to demonstrate quantum supremacy on useful real-world problem (March 2025)"},{"label":"Technology","value":"Quantum annealing"},{"label":"Ticker","value":"Nasdaq: QBTS"},{"label":"Multi-site","value":"Also at USC ISI + Davidson Technologies Huntsville"},{"label":"Sold to FZJ","value":"First HPC center to own a D-Wave Advantage system"},{"label":"Founded","value":"1999 (first commercial quantum computing company)"},{"label":"Employees","value":"~382"},{"label":"Market cap","value":"~$6.5B (2025)"},{"label":"Flagship system","value":"Advantage2 (4,400+ qubits GA, quantum annealing)"},{"label":"CHIPS Act","value":"$100M funding (May 2026)"},{"label":"Acquisition","value":"Quantum Circuits ($550M)"},{"label":"Qubit count","value":"Advantage2 system: 4,400+ superconducting flux qubits with 40,000+ couplers on the Zephyr topology"},{"label":"Predecessor system","value":"Advantage system: 5,000+ qubits, 15-way connectivity (Pegasus topology), online since 2020"},{"label":"System power draw","value":"Advantage2 QPU stack draws ~12.5 kW total (same as Advantage despite performance gains)"},{"label":"Cryogenics","value":"Dilution refrigerators cool the QPU to ~10-15 millikelvin; no process water"},{"label":"General availability","value":"Advantage2 declared generally available on May 20, 2025 (QBTS stock rose ~26%)"},{"label":"Quantum supremacy paper","value":"Beyond-Classical Computation in Quantum Simulation (Science, March 12, 2025): ~20 min vs ~1M years on Frontier"},{"label":"Fabrication partner","value":"QPU wafers fabricated by SkyWater Technology (Bloomington, MN) under a ~decade-long partnership"},{"label":"Cloud delivery","value":"Leap quantum cloud service: 99.9% uptime, sub-second response, available in 40+ countries"},{"label":"First HPC customer","value":"Forschungszentrum Julich (JUNIQ) purchased an Advantage system Feb 13, 2025 with Advantage2 upgrade path"},{"label":"HQ transition","value":"Corporate HQ + U.S. R&D relocating to Boca Raton, FL by end of 2026; Burnaby remains the quantum engineering + manufacturing center"}],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1907982/000190798226000026/qbts-20251231.htm","name":"SEC","title":"D-Wave Quantum SEC Filing 2025"},{"url":"https://bctimes.ca/articles/d-wave-vancouver-quantum-computing-center","name":"BC Times","title":"D-Wave's Burnaby Quantum Centre Anchors Canada's Push"},{"url":"https://www.perplexity.ai/finance/QBTS?comparing","name":"Perplexity","title":"QBTS - D-Wave Quantum Inc. 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