No quantum computer has yet beat a computer at solving a real, useful problem. But Google claimed late last year that it discovered a way to do error correction.
One question at the panel centered around whether quantum computing might one day threaten companies like Nvidia that make computers based on transistors.
"A long time ago, somebody asked me, 'So what's accelerated computing good for?'" Huang said at the panel. Accelerated computing is a phrase he uses to refer to the kind of GPU computers that Nvidia makes.