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Quantum Computing Stocks Fall After Nvidia Ceo Says Technology Is Year

Bonisiwe Shabane
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quantum computing stocks fall after nvidia ceo says technology is year

Several stocks across the quantum computing industry, including Rigetti Computing (RGTI), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), IonQ (IONQ), and Quantum Computing (QUBT), fell sharply Wednesday following comments from Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang about the technology. Huang said at an analyst event Tuesday that "very useful quantum computers," which could make a number of computing tasks more efficient, are likely 15 to 30 years away. "If you kind of said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that would probably be on the early side," Huang said. "If you said, you know, 30, it’s probably on the late side. But if you picked 20, I think a whole bunch of us would believe it." Huang also said Nvidia is an ideal partner for quantum computing companies because "it turns out that you need a classical computer to do error correction with the quantum computer, and that classical computer...

D-Wave Quantum was down 33% Wednesday afternoon, while Rigetti, IonQ, and Quantum all declined around 40%. The Defiance Quantum (QTUM) exchange-traded fund (ETF), made up of the listed companies along with other chip and tech companies like Nvidia, was down 4.5%. A handful of quantum computing stocks have skyrocketed as some paint the technology as the next big technological innovation, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned analysts that any practical applications are still many years... Huang said Nvidia is not worried about quantum computing and added that practical applications for the nascent but powerful computers are at least 15 years away or more. “And so if you kind of said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that’d probably be on the early side. If you said 30 is probably on the late side.

But if you picked 20, I think a whole bunch of us would believe it,” Huang told analysts, according to Axios. Quantum computers, which are powered by atom-sized “qubits” that operate via the rules of quantum mechanics, have been shown to be extremely powerful, but only in certain situations. They are distinct from existing “classical” supercomputers, which operate more similarly to a basic laptop, albeit at a much higher level. Last month, Google researchers announced its homegrown Willow quantum-computing chip could solve a complex math problem that would’ve taken the most powerful existing supercomputers 10 septillion years, or more than the estimated age of... Nvidia (NVDA) chief executive Jensen Huang doesn’t think useful quantum computers will be here anytime soon — and stocks are not reacting well to it. Quantum computing stocks such as IonQ (IONQ) and Rigetti Computing (RGTI) fell by more than 40% Wednesday morning after Huang’s comments during Nvidia’s financial analyst day at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

IonQ’s shares were down by about 45%, while Rigetti’s shares fell by more than 48% mid-morning. Quantum Computing (QUBT), which announced a stock offering earlier this week to raise $100 million, saw its shares fall by about 49%. D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), meanwhile, saw shares fall by around 47%. “If you said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that would probably be on the early side,” Huang said. “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.”

The Nvidia chief said he thinks the AI chipmaker will play “a significant part” in the development of quantum computers, and push it toward getting “there as fast as possible.” Quantum computing stocks IonQ (IONQ), Rigetti Computing (RGTI), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) and Quantum Computing (QUBT) plunged Wednesday after Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang said that the technology won't be "very useful" for 15-30 years. "If you kind of said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that would probably be on the early side. If you said 30, it's probably… 12/31/2025 Axsome's market cap has grown to $9.1 billion. 12/31/2025 Axsome's market cap has grown to $9.1 billion.

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