Business Context and Reporting Period
This Form 8-K Current Report was filed by D-Wave Quantum Inc. on August 18, 2026. The filing discloses a significant commercial milestone involving the deployment of D-Wave's quantum computing technology by NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan's largest mobile operator with over 93 million subscriptions.
Key Financial Metrics
The filing does not provide specific financial data such as revenue, profit, cash flow, margins, debt, or liquidity figures. This report focuses exclusively on a regulatory disclosure regarding a business development.
Material Changes and Operational Highlights
- New Production Deployment: DOCOMO has deployed a second D-Wave-powered quantum computing application in production.
- Performance Improvements: The new application reduced location registration signals by 65.3% at daily peak and reduced paging signals by 7.0%.
- Operational Efficiency: The deployment optimizes Tracking Area Lists (TA-Lists) across multiple tracking areas, balancing location registration and paging signals to lower network signaling load.
- Speed of Execution: In a representative problem spanning 333 base stations, three TA-Lists, and nine tracking areas, the optimization was completed in approximately five minutes.
Management Commentary and Outlook
Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave, stated that these results demonstrate the capability of D-Wave's annealing quantum computing technology to help mobile operators improve network performance and efficiency in current operations. The deployment expands DOCOMO's production use of quantum computing from optimizing paging signals within tracking areas to a broader network optimization challenge.
Investor Verification Checklist
- Verify the commercial terms and revenue recognition status of the DOCOMO deployment.
- Confirm if this deployment represents a new contract or an expansion of an existing agreement.
- Assess the scalability of the 65.3% signal reduction metric across DOCOMO's entire network.
- Review the attached press release (Exhibit 99.1) for additional technical or commercial details.