The Nvidia Accelerated Quantum Research Center, or NVAQC, will pave the way for “accelerated quantum supercomputing,” the company said. Nvidia isn’t the first to propose mer

Nvidia will open a quantum computing research lab in Boston, where it plans to collaborate with scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday.

The chipmaker NVIDIA held its annual conference in Silicon Valley this week. Among the major announcements: it chose Boston to be the site of its first-ever research center for quantum computing, opening later this year.