Nvidia Is Helping Google Design Quantum Computing Processors

Nvidia Corp., the chipmaker at the center of a boom in artificial intelligence use, is teaming up with Alphabet Inc.’s Google to pursue another technology once relegated to science fiction: quantum computing.

Google’s Quantum AI division will use Nvidia’s Eos supercomputer to speed up the design of quantum components, according to a statement from the companies on Monday. The idea is to simulate the physics that’s required for quantum processors to work, helping them overcome current limitations.

This field of computing aims to use quantum mechanics to create machines that are much faster than today’s semiconductor-based technology. But ...