They can be made at room temperature, unlike a silicon chip, and paper is a lot less pricey than electronics-grade silicon.

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The D-Wave One system consists of a superconducting 128-qubit chip in a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter room.

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The D-Wave computer operates as an adiabatic quantum computer, and consists of a superconducting 128-qubit chip in a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter room.

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The power needed to run such a small chip is so low that it could be done off stray light in a room, or even body heat.

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