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Inside D-Wave’s Major Acquisition—What Changes for Investors

Reported by Nathan Reiff. Posted: 1/12/2026. 

At a Glance

• D-Wave has put its $836 million in cash reserves to good use, announcing in early 2026 that it would purchase rival Quantum Circuits for $550 million in cash and stock.
• The purchase comes after months of investor speculation that D-Wave would go on a buying spree.
• Acquiring Quantum Circuits should help D-Wave to close the technology gap on its gate-model-focused rivals, but commercial viability remains distant.

Popular quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) took another step toward cementing its position with an early-2026 announcement that it will acquire privately held rival Quantum Circuits Inc. for $550 million. This is D-Wave’s first major acquisition since it reported more than $800 million in cash on hand in its second-quarter 2025 results, fueling investor speculation that the company might go on a buying spree.

D-Wave has been working to expand beyond quantum annealing — an approach that is highly effective for optimization problems but less suited to many other workloads. The Quantum Circuits deal is the clearest indication of D-Wave’s push into the more common gate-model approach, potentially broadening the range of use cases for its quantum systems.

Why Quantum Circuits?

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With nearly a billion dollars in cash late in 2025, D-Wave likely had many acquisition options. Quantum Circuits is a strong pick because of its decade-plus experience building gate-model quantum systems.

One area where D-Wave has trailed competitors such as Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI) is in gate-model technology. The acquisition should help close that gap: D-Wave will now own gate-model capabilities alongside its commercially available annealing systems, the latter already on the market.

Quantum Circuits is known for its dual-rail architecture, which includes built-in error detection. That design can produce higher-quality qubits while reducing the physical resources required for fabrication. D-Wave expects to commercially launch a dual-rail system sometime in 2026.

Financial Impacts on D-Wave

The acquisition could help D-Wave leapfrog competitors by adding industry-leading gate-model systems to its annealing-based portfolio. At $550 million — $300 million in common stock and $250 million in cash — the price may be modest relative to the strategic value.

D-Wave ended the third quarter of 2025 with $836 million in cash and equivalents, up significantly year-over-year and modestly on a sequential basis.

Maintaining a strong cash buffer will be essential, given D-Wave’s limited revenue to date. Third-quarter revenue was $3.7 million — a year-over-year doubling — but still small compared with some rivals. Quarterly net losses were roughly $141 million.

Is It Time to Buy D-Wave?

D-Wave shares received a modest boost after the Jan. 7, 2026 announcement, rising to about $32 per share, but the stock gave most of those gains back by the end of the week. Investors remain cautious.

When the acquisition closes (expected in January 2026), D-Wave will gain access to valuable technology, but it will not immediately roll out new products or achieve broad commercial viability for either gate-model or annealing platforms.

In that respect, the acquisition is the latest in a string of promising developments over the past year that have yet to materially move the needle on revenue or significantly narrow losses.

Many analysts still expect widespread commercialization of quantum technology to be years away. D-Wave may be better positioned than some peers in that race, but investors will likely need to wait until any company demonstrates clear, broad commercial returns.

Accordingly, analyst optimism around QBTS — and Wall Street’s view that the stock could climb by roughly 20% to nearly $34 per share — comes with the caveat that D-Wave remains a speculative investment. Some investors may increasingly see it as a leading quantum firm, but meaningful risks remain until quantum technology finds widespread commercial adoption.

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