The executive had said in January that “very useful” quantum computers are probably decades away, causing shares of IonQ and other companies to tumble.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he didn’t realise there were publicly traded quantum computing companies when he made earlier comments that caused industry stocks to crash.
“My first reaction was, I didn’t know they were public. How can a quantum company be public?” Huang said at an event Thursday focused on the still-nascent technology.
