The CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, conducts interviews with the management of quantum companies at the annual NVIDIA developer conference in San Jose, California, USA, March 20, 2025.
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Nvidia The general director of Jensen Huang withdrew the comments on Thursday, which he made in January, when he doubted whether useful quantum computers would go to the market in the next 15 years.
At the “Day Quantum Day” event Nvidia, in the part of the company's annual conference, Huang admitted that his comments came out badly.
“This is the first event in history in which the company's general director invites all guests to explain why he was wrong,” said Huang.
Huang in January Quantum calculations were sent When he said that 15 years were “on the early side”, considering how long it would be useful. He said at that time that 20 years is a time frame in which “the whole group of us will believe”.
In his first comments on Thursday, Huang told comparisons between quantum enterprises and the early days of Nvidia. It took Nvidia for over 20 years to build software and hardware activities.
He also expressed the surprise that his comments were able to move markets, and he joked that he did not know that some quantum computer companies were publicly traded.
“How can a quantum company be public?” Huang said.
The event included panels with representatives of 12 quantum companies and startups. It represents a kind of truce between NVIDIA, which creates more traditional computers and quantum calculation industry. Several quantum performers fired at Nvidia after the previous Huang's comments.
The third panel included representatives of Microsoft AND Amazon Internet services, which also invest in quantum technology and belong to the most important NVIDIA clients.
Nvidia has a different reason to accept a quantum. As the construction of quantum computers is built, most of the research takes place via simulators on powerful computers, such as those that Nvidia sells.
It is also possible that a quantum computer would require a traditional computer to operate it. NVIDIA is working on providing technology and software for integration of graphics processing units (GPU) and quantum systems.
“Of course, quantum calculations have potential and all our hopes that it will bring this extraordinary influence,” said Huang on Thursday. “But technology is incredibly complicated.”
Nvidia said This week that he will build a research center in Boston to enable quantum companies to cooperate with researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The center will include several company AI Blackwell server stands.
Computing Quantum has been a dream of physicists and mathematicians since the 1980s, when Professor Technology California Institute of Technology Richard Feynman for the first time proposed the idea of a quantum computer.
While classic computers use bits that are 0 or 1, beaten inside a quantum computer – cubic – end on the basis of probability. Experts predict that technology will be able to solve problems with huge amounts of possible solutions, such as deciphering codes, routing delivery or simulation of chemistry or weather.
No quantum computer has However, beat the computer When solving a real, useful problem. But Google claimed At the end of last year that he discovered a way to correct errors.
One question on the panel focused on whether quantum calculations could one day threaten companies like Nvidia, which create computers based on transistors.
“A long time ago someone asked me:” So what was the computer to accelerate? ” – Huang said on the panel. Accelerated calculations are the sentence he uses in relation to the type of GPU computers that Nvidia creates.
“I said a long time ago because I was wrong, it would replace computers,” he said. “It will be a way to make calculations and everything, everything will be better. And it turned out that I was wrong.”
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