Comment by djrjfndnfhf

I'm not sure where you're getting your information: everyone in this thread seems to be parroting the same popsci headline that it's not a "real" quantum computer, but that completely misses the point. Regardless of whether or not it's a general purpose computing machine with programmable logic, it can still perform mathematical optimization of an objective function over a superposition of bits. Saying that it's not quantum because it's not general purpose is a complete distortion of the facts.