[...] The latest round brings the total amount of venture funding raised by Rigetti to $69.2 million.
"Quantum computing will enable people to tackle a whole new set of problems that were previously unsolvable," said Chad Rigetti, founder and chief executive officer of Rigetti Computing. "This is the next generation of advanced computing technology. The potential to make a positive impact on humanity is enormous."
"We will use the funding to expand our business and engineering teams and continue to invest in infrastructure to manufacture and deploy our quantum integrated circuits," Rigetti added.
Source: http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/quantum-computer-startup-rigetti.html
Previously mentioned here: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/02/10/181240
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @09:00PM
Despite being old and/or allegedly cynical, you clearly have no clue how the world works. Any sentence that begins "why can't we all..." is doomed. Progress is made not by winning a logical argument with a flourish and a slap in the face with a white glove, but only by old guys dying off one by one. No-one is *ever* going to sit down and sort out the old stuff. Shit will move on, and on, and on. And one day people will say, wow pointers?!? What were they thinking!
Cynical now?