Nvidia CEO Juan says he was wrong in the temporary scale for quantum computing

Nvidia Jensen CEO Jensen Juan returned back on Thursday when he did in January when he raised doubts about whether quantum computers would enter the market in the next 15 years.

At the Nvidia “Quantum Day” event, part of the GTC annual conference, Juan admitted that his comments were wrong.

“This is the first event in history when the CEO invites all the guests to explain why he was wrong,” Juan said.

In January Juan Sent quantum computing reserves that are redone When he said he was 15 years of “on the early side”, considering how much time it will be before technology would be useful. At the time, he said that 20 years was a term that “a whole pile of believing us.”

In his entrance comments on Thursday, Juan held a comparison of quantum companies before the assumption and the first days of Nvidia. He said it took more than 20 years to create its software and hardware business.

He also made surprise that his comments were able to move the markets and joked that he did not know that some quantum computing companies were publicly trading.

“How can a public company of quantum computer campaign?” said Juan.

The event included panels with representatives from 12 quantum companies and startups. It is a visit between NVIDIA, making more traditional computers, and a quantum computing industry. Several quantum performers fired back at Nvidia after preliminary comments Juan.

The third group included representatives with Microsoft and Amazon Web service, which also invest in quantum technology and are among the most important Nvidia customers.

Nvidia has another reason to take quanta. As quantum computers are created, most of the research on them is conducted through simulators on powerful computers, such as the Nvidia selling.

It is also possible that the quantum computer will require a traditional computer to control it. Nvidia is working on providing technology and software to integrate graphic processing units (graphic processors) and quantum chips.

“Of course, quantum calculations have the potential and all our hopes that it has an extraordinary influence,” Juan said on Thursday. “But technology is insanely complicated.”

said Nvidia This week What it will build a research center in Boston to allow quantum companies to cooperate with Harvard and Massachusetts Researchers. The center will include several AI Blackwell server shelves.

Quantum calculations have been a dream of physicists and mathematicians since the 1980s, when Professor of the California Technology Institute Richard Feinman first offered the idea at the quantum computer.

While classic computers use the bits that make up either 0 or 1, bits inside the quantum computer – cubes – eventually excluded on the basis of probability. Experts predict that this technology will be able to solve problems with a lot of possible solutions such as decoding codes, routes or chemistry or weather modeling.

No quantum computer has but defeat your computer When solving a true, useful problem. But Google claimed At the end of last year What he discovered a way to make an error correction.

One of the questions on the panel focuses on whether quantum calculations once threaten companies like Nvidia that make transistors based computers.

“For a long time, someone asked me,” So why for accelerated calculations? “,” said Juan on the panel. Accelerated calculations is a phrase he uses to indicate the GPU computers that makes Nvidia.

“I said that I was mistaken for a long time, it would replace the computers,” he said. “It will be the way the calculation is done, and everything will be better. And it turned out that I am wrong.”

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