Fujitsu Laboratories originally developed the hardware using next-generation architecture inspired by quantum phenomena. The Digital Annealer's ability to rapidly locate optimal solutions for problems that could not be solved using conventional computers, makes it an ideal choice for applications in a wide range of areas, including delivery optimisations in distribution, the optimisation of component placement in a factory, portfolio optimisation in finance, and narrowing candidate selection in materials and drug discovery. For drug discovery, PeptiDream has a proprietary drug discovery and development platform called the Peptide Discovery Platform System, which enables it to freely create unique peptides that have a variety of unnatural amino acids and accelerate searches for drug candidate compounds.