D-Wave, a Canadian company, has created what some are calling the "world's first commercially available quantum computer." It has 512 qubits which allow for computations on a quantum level. In order for this to be possible, however, the chip must have almost zero electrical resistance, and be cooled to almost absolute zero. D-Wave list of customers so far is short but powerful : NASA, Google, the CIA, Lockheed Martin, and potentially more.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkna...artner-to-purchase-a-d-wave-quantum-computer/
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In one case [of a particular type of computation] it took less than half a second to do something that took conventional software 30 minutes.