Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang roamed the comments he made in January on Thursday.
At Nvidia’s “Quantum Day” event, part of the company’s annual GTC conference, Huang admitted that his comments were wrong.
“This is the first event where the company CEO invites all the guests to explain why he was wrong,” Huang says.
In January, Huang shooed Quantum Computing Stocks when he said “early” when considering how long 15 years will last for technology to come to aid. He said at the time that 20 years was a time frame of “our whole bunch will believe.”
In his opening comments on Thursday, Huang drew a comparison between pre-revenue quantum companies and the early days of Nvidia. He said it took Nvidia more than 20 years to build its software and hardware business.
He also expressed surprise that his comments could move the market, jokingly unaware that certain quantum computing companies were open to the public.
“How can quantum computer companies be made public?” the fan said.
The event included a panel with representatives from 12 quantum companies and startups. This represents a ceasefire between the more traditional computers and Nvidia, which creates the quantum computing industry. After Huang’s previous comments, several quantum executives fired at Nvidia.
The third panel included representatives from Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. It also invests in quantum technology, and is one of Nvidia’s most important customers.
Nvidia has another reason to embrace quantum. As quantum computers are built, much of the research into them is done through powerful computer simulators, such as those sold by Nvidia.
It is also possible that quantum computers may need traditional computers to operate them. Nvidia is committed to providing technology and software to integrate graphics processing units (GPUs) and quantum chips.
“Of course, quantum computing has the potential and all hope that it can have an extraordinary impact,” Huang said Thursday. “But this technique is incredibly complicated.”
Nvidia said this week it would build a research center in Boston to allow quantum companies to work with researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The center includes several racks of the company’s Blackwell AI servers.
Quantum computing has been a doctor and mathematician’s dream since the 1980s, when Professor Richard Feynman of California Institute of Technology first proposed the idea behind quantum computers.
Classic computers use either a 0 or a 1 bit, but the bits (kitz) in a quantum computer are turned on or off based on probability. Experts predict that the technology can solve problems with a huge amount of possible solutions, including deciphering codes, routing delivery, chemistry and weather simulations.
There are no quantum computers that are still violating computers when solving real useful problems. However, Google claimed it had discovered a way to fix the error late last year.
One question on the panel centers on whether it could one day threaten companies like NVIDIA, which manufacture computers based on transistors.
“A long time ago someone asked me, Accelerated computing is a phrase used by Nvidia to refer to the type of GPU computer that it creates.
“I said a long time ago, I was wrong, so this would replace the computer,” he said. “This is the way computing was done, everything, everything will be better, and I found myself wrong.”
