Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is rising extra bullish about quantum computing — and he expects they’re going to begin fixing real-world issues within the coming years.

“Quantum computing is reaching an inflection point,” Jensen declared throughout his keynote speech at Nvidia’s GTC Paris developer convention Wednesday.

Quantum computer systems are machines that use the legal guidelines of quantum mechanics to unravel issues too advanced for classical computer systems, which retailer info in bits (ones and zeroes).

Quantum computer systems use quantum bits, or “qubits,” which will be zero, one or one thing in between — the purpose being to course of a lot bigger volumes of knowledge to facilitate breakthroughs in areas like medication, science and finance.

Quantum has been a buzzy house for buyers with the rise of a number of standard shares, reminiscent of Rigetti Computing and IonQ, which on Monday acquired Oxford Ionics for $1.1 billion. Shares of Rigetti and IonQ have been up 4.5% and three.7% respectively in U.S. premarket buying and selling.

Huang on Wednesday stated he is been impressed with the “large community” of quantum computing corporations inside Europe, including that he’d met with representatives of French quantum startup Pasqal on Tuesday night time.

“We are within reach” of having the ability to apply quantum computer systems “in areas that can solve some interesting problems in the coming years,” Huang added, as he talked up Nvidia’s personal hybrid quantum-classical computing answer, Cuda Q. “This is a really exciting time.”

This marks a extra bullish view from the Nvidia boss on quantum, after Huang beforehand stated he thinks a 15-year timeline for realizing helpful quantum computer systems is “on the early side,” and {that a} 20-year timeframe was a likelier goal.

His views on the time led to quantum computing shares together with Rigetti, IonQ and D-Wave Quantum plunging. Extra not too long ago, Huang has admitted his feedback got here out unsuitable and expressed his shock in regards to the ensuing market actions.

Huang is not alone in recognizing the quantum computing hype. Late final yr, Google introduced its newest quantum chip, Willow, which it stated marked a serious breakthrough in so-called “error correction” — a set of methods used to guard quantum info from errors.

– CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal contributed to this report