Nvidia's Jensen Huang is "dead wrong" about quantum computers, D-Wave CEO says

Shares of D-Wave Quantum [down 36%] and its peers plunged Wednesday after Nvidia [AI chips] CEO Jensen Huang suggested that quantum computers are decades away...D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz told CNBC...that his company has big paying clients today.

D-wave’s market cap went up 10X in six weeks of November and December

It merely shows how willing “the market,” and all its investment funds and speculators, are still willing to throw money at any new “tech” concept.

Quantum computing entering into general use is decades away.

Which is not to say that there is not going to be research using powerful quantum computers being used to solve specialized problems in the near term.

In fact, that is already happening. We are nowhere near that point yet.

Quantum computing entering into general use is decades away.

Which is not to say that there is not going to be research using powerful quantum computers being used to solve specialized problems in the near term.

In fact, that is already happening.

But quantum computing involves some very difficult problems that need to be solved and extensive testing and validation needs to be done before quantum computers can be trusted for high reliability, fault and error free mission critical computing applications.

We are nowhere near that point yet.

Quantum computing is currently the subject of physics PhD thesis research!

It doesn’t sound like it is ready for general use any time soon!

One decade at most. This isn’t fusion energy. Huang is wrong and I own NVDA but may be cutting back based on what looks like desperate talk. Quantum computing hardware, albeit primitive, exists and the concept has been proven by Google. Using Moore’s Law (doesn’t really apply here though) and AI helping with design will bring about practical quantum computing way before decades pass.

He’s dead wrong about “AI agents” too, and LLMs in general. He is in many ways a snake oil salesman. But most people know little about AI, so think he is a prophet. He is just a chip salesman.

Big financial firms have been throwing money at quantum computing for more than 5 years. There is certainly interest in the practical concept of its application to make money.

This from being there and getting previews of practical applications that are publicly acknowledged. I could only speculate on what they haven’t disclosed.

Nvidia's probably the maker of the chip for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. Anyway, the rest of the Nvidia keyword, plus the Nvidia-in-topic-title search results, sorted, with (I think) duplicates out:

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Amazon Announces Supercomputer, New Server Powered by Homegrown AI Chips as Alternative to Nvidia [12/09/2024]
How the Trump tariffs on Taiwan chips could hurt the AI trade — and the likes of Nvidia [11/26/2024]
AMD to lay off 4% of workforce, or about 1,000 employees [11/13/2024]
Lightmatter nearly quadruples valuation to $4.4B as it builds a new kind of AI chip [10/17/2024]
Qualcomm wants to buy Intel. Would that be enough to overtake Nvidia? [09/23/2024]
China Gains Secret Access To Nvdia Microchips By Renting Computers [08/26/2024]
Stocks: Nvidia is now worth more than the GDP of every country except these 11 [06/21/2024]
Nvidia overtakes Apple as No. 2 most valuable company [06/05/2024]
Nvidia announces new AI chips months after latest launch as market competition heats up [06/02/2024]
Nvidia stock pops 4% after earnings beat forecasts, announces stock split and dividend hike [05/22/2024]
Jensen Huang says bosses must be demanding: 'If you want to do extraordinary things...' [05/01/2024]
Upcoming Nvidia Blackwell GPU will consume 1kW of power [04/30/2024]
Report: Microsoft to build 'Stargate' supercomputer with millions of chips for OpenAI [03/30/2024]
NVIDIA's (NVDA) Valuation Surpasses $2T Milestone on AI Boost [03/04/2024]
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The Pelosis' bet on a Bay Area tech company could turn a staggering profit [02/27/2024]
Nvidia's Skyrocketing Trajectory: Deja Vu of Dot Com Bubble... A Perilous Paradox Unfolding? [02/01/2024]
Nvidia's automotive chip sales still riding high in China [12/03/2023]
Apple Is Dangerously Close To Losing Its Spot As The Most Valuable Stock [11/26/2023]
China's AI Analog Chip Claimed To Be 3000X Faster Than Nvidia's A100 GPU [11/05/2023]
Nvidia's $25 billion buyback 'a head-scratcher' for some shareholders [08/26/2023]
Nvidia deepens bets on AI in drug discovery with Recursion investment [07/13/2023]
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub [05/31/2023]
Don't underrate China's ability to catch up in chips: Nvidia CEO [05/30/2023]
Specs for Dell #061p37 (Nvidia NVS 510 2GB Video Graphics Card) with GDDR5? [01/06/2023]
China on course to elude US chip-making equipment bans [10/03/2022]
'Moore's Law's dead,' Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says in justifying gaming-card price hike [09/22/2022]
US Allows Nvidia To Export, Transfer Tech To [to China] to Develop Flagship AI Chip [09/01/2022]
NVIDIA Transitioning To Official, Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Driver [05/12/2022]
Microsoft investigates after Lapsus$ gang brags of Bing, Cortana code heist [03/21/2022]
Hack of Nvidia 'A National Disaster' [03/12/2022]
NVIDIA's GauGAN2 AI Can Generate Photorealistic Scenes Just From A Sentence [11/25/2021]
ARM China seizes IP, Relaunches as an 'Independent' Company [08/30/2021]
Why Intel x86 will DIE sooner than you think! (RIP 1978-2022) [07/03/2021]
Microsoft Is Rethinking Windows 11 Minimum Requirement For These Popular AMD And Intel CPUs [06/30/2021]
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Says Semi Shortage Could Last "A Couple Years" [06/01/2021]
Arm Puts Some Muscle Into Future Neoverse Server CPU Designs [05/02/2021]
Apple's M1 chips might just be the beginning of Intel's nightmare [04/20/2021]
How Nvidia JUST came in to FINISH the Job (R.I.P. Intel) [ARM chips / acquisition] [04/13/2021]
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Nvidia's Scary AI Generates Humans That Look 100% Real [12/18/2018]
NVIDIA Reinforces Machine Learning Training Lead Via Platform Improvements At GTC 2018 [04/09/2018]
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Intel reports strong quarterly growth, forecasts $1.3 billion windfall from tax cuts (MAGA Profits!) [01/26/2018]
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Intel finds critical holes in secret Management Engine hidden in tons of desktop, server chipsets [11/22/2017]
AMD, Nvidia shares drop after Intel hires AMD's ex-graphics head to take them on [11/11/2017]
Nvidia's Driverless Car Learns From Observing Human [10/01/2016]
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Nvidia's Ansel: Capture Images From Within Your Games Like Never Before [05/08/2016]
Oculus CEO: We'll build for Apple if it ever releases a 'good computer' [03/04/2016]
NVIDIA Supercomputer to Bring AI to New Generation of Autonomous Robots and Drones [11/12/2015]
Nvidia Recalls 88,000 Shield Tablets, Citing Fire Hazard [08/02/2015]
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US DOE To Build Two NVIDIA GPU-Powered Supercomputers Three Times Faster Than The World's Fastest [11/15/2014]
Waiting on 20nm graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD? Don't bother. [09/21/2014]
Nvidia sinks moon landing hoax using virtual light [09/20/2014]
Nvidia and IBM unveil NVLink interconnect between CPUs and GPUs....2016 ... 5x-12x [03/25/2014]
Confirmed! Crop Circle Mystery Solved [01/06/2014]
Nvidia stretches CUDA coding to ARM chips [06/19/2013]
Nvidia Introduces Tegra 4 Application Processor for Tablets and Smartphones. [01/07/2013]
Nvidia announces its own portable gaming console [01/07/2013]
Nvidia Develops High-Performance ARM-Based "Boulder" Microprocessor - Report. [09/23/2012]
AMD pushes FX-8150 to 8.429GHz (Video ) [09/13/2011]
Nvidia Tegra Stark 100x faster than Tegra 2 [02/16/2011]
NVIDIA announces quad-core Kal-El SOC, promises it in tablets by August (video) [02/15/2011]
NVIDIA Tegra 3, equipped with 1.5GHz quad-core madness, teased by a familiar slide [01/25/2011]
CES: Project Denver puts Windows on Nvidia chips [01/24/2011]
Tesla Motors' new sedan to feature Nvidia chips [01/13/2011]
TSMC and Nvidia ship one-billionth GPU [01/13/2011]
Intel inks $1.5 billion licensing agreement with Nvidia [01/11/2011]
NVIDIA's Tegra 2 Take Two: More Architectural Details and Design Wins [01/06/2011]
Nvidia Tegra 2 hailed as Honeycomb CPU of choice ( Honeycomb is followon to Gingerbread ) [12/20/2010]
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Notion Ink's Adam tablet ready for pre-order ( Tegra 2 and Pixel Qi display ) [12/10/2010]
First Look: Viewsonic G Tablet and Tegra 2 Performance Preview [12/09/2010]
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NVIDIA GF106 GPU Fermi Architecture - NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 GF106 Video Card [09/23/2010]
Nvidia CEO: We have a CPU strategy [08/14/2010]
Nvidia says Windows too bloated for tablets [06/01/2010]
NVIDIA VP Declares Moore's Law Dead, GPUs Are Computing's Only Hope [05/06/2010]
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GPU Computing shows superior efficiency in Australian Outback [01/29/2010]
Intel Comments on FTC Suit [12/17/2009]
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Nvidia's bad bump misery deepens ( May 2009 to ---? ) Failing nvidia chips....?) [12/10/2009]
NVIDIA Developer Talks Openly About Linux Support [10/20/2009]
Oak Ridge goes gaga for Nvidia GPUs (Fermi is the name ) [10/02/2009]
Nvidia Puts On Graphic Power Display With Fermi ( Natl Labs interested ) [10/01/2009]
NVIDIA Takes GPU Computing to the Next Level [10/01/2009]
NVIDIA's Fermi: Architected for Tesla, 3 Billion Transistors in 2010 [10/01/2009]
NVIDIA ION Linux Performance ( Intel ATOM processor - Nvidia Graphics & chipset ) [06/09/2009]
AMD's ATI breaks 1Ghz barrier -- for real? [05/13/2009]
The NVIDIA ION Platform Revisited [05/13/2009]
Nvidia targets Netbooks, Intel with 9400M chip [01/26/2009]
Folding@Home - Turning Up the Speed! [08/17/2008]
Nvidia Reports Problem With Laptop Chips [07/04/2008]
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Analyst Expects Nvidia to Acquire AMD Despite of Chances to Lose x86 License [02/23/2008]
NVidia and Vista(An annoyed vanity) [02/14/2007]
Updated: Will DIY Vista Media Centers Be DOA? [02/22/2006]
Going for Broke [Will Apple and Intel merge?] [06/09/2005]
Geforce Ultra 6800 [03/25/2005]
IMHO: New World Order [of the tech industry] [08/20/2002]

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