> “traveling salesman problem”
They quoted it - which means they obviously don't know what they are talking about - and then go on to talk about esoteric things (Ising machine) as if that's some sort of justification.
An Ising machine is also a Turing machine and the traveling salesman problem is NP complete. Which means no breakthroughs. It can however, maybe, be more performant at certain kind of problems (like statistical solutions to optimization problems... like the traveling salesman problem). Like a GPU is more performant at doing lots of floating point operations at once; but not that it will be any faster, in the large scale, at solving hard problems like the traveling salesman problem.
And they present it with a vague description which makes it sound like it might just be some sort of quantum system. It isn't. The failure to provide facts, to challenge assertions and claims, to actually know, in our news media is super annoying.
And the clickbait, uggh.