A few months ago, I suggested that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang might have to eat his words after he downplayed the progress of quantum computing. At the time, he predicted: If you said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that would probably be on the early side. If you said 30, it’s probably on the late side. But if you picked 20, I think a whole bunch of us would believe it. But in a keynote speech earlier this month at Nvidia’s GTC Paris conference, Huang completely changed his tune, saying: Quantum computing is reaching an inflection point. We are within reach [of applying quantum machines] in areas that can ... (full story)