Nvidia Bets on the Classical Side of Quantum Computing – EE Times

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On the ground floor of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), MareNostrum 5 sits alongside three new quantum computers housed in an adjoining deconsecrated chapel. The supercomputer, equipped with thousands of Nvidia GPUs, is now connected to the quantum systems. The arrangement puts Nvidia’s role in the emerging hybrid-computing architecture into view.

“We don’t build a quantum computer,” said Sam Stanwyck, director of quantum products at Nvidia, in an interview with EE Times. “But Nvidia is fundamentally an accelerated computing platform company, and quantum computing is a part of the future of accelerated computing that we are extremely excited about.”

Nvidia is not developing its own quantum processing units (QPUs). Instead, it is focusing on the classical computing infrastructure around quantum hardware, including software, libraries, interconnects, and control systems that enable hybrid quantum-classical computing. 

Stanwyck compared the company’s hands-off hardware approach to its strategies in other…