[Tyyps]

This is quantum annealing and it has nothing to do with Shor (I should have been precise sorry).

It is not clear at all that quantum annealing provides any speedup compared to a classical computer.

[mikestorrent]

Yeah that was the first line of my comment.

Annealing is in fact proven to be able to do certain things faster than any classical CPU; whether you can make use of that particular feature is a different question. If you're into spinglasses, maybe