Fujitsu wants to solve the world’s most complex problems with quantum computing—but the technology is still maturing. So, the Japanese IT giant teamed up with 1QBit, a quantum computing startup, to create something new—something not quite quantum, but quantum-inspired. They built a digital annealer, which can conduct Using the digital annealer to optimize the processes calculations at quantum scale and speeds without and workflows, employees reduced their distance needing to achieve a genuine quantum state. Taking traveled during parts gathering by 20 percent every 2 inspiration from quantum designs, it’s able to solve month. What’s more, Fujitsu isn’t planning to keep complex problems that researchers once thought this innovation to itself. The company is expanding 1 only quantum devices could solve. its business by offering new on-premises and cloud-accessible digital annealer services to clients Fujitsu deployed the new digital annealer at the in industries ranging from automotive production main manufacturing site for its flagship products. to retail.3 The site stocks 3,000 unique parts and gathering them for product assembly was largely inefficient.