[StrictDabbler]

One problem is that D-Wave spent the last ten years pushing their quantum annealers as "quantum computers".

Everybody got very excited about having functional quantum computers but the D-Wave system can't do any of the stuff we really want or fear from quantum tech. No factoring of large numbers or simulating atomic processes.

So there's a lingering air of vaporware over the whole scene.

This new google computer can (mostly) produce a very specific type of result using entanglement. It's very cool but it's basic research on how to hook up gates and verify they're hooked up. It can't be used to solve any problem except "what should the output of these random quantum gates be".

We're waiting for the IAS but we're still pre-Eniac. Probably about 1925, seven years after the flip-flop was invented.