Could Rigetti Computing Become the Next Nvidia?

The fledgling quantum computing company has some ambitious plans.Over the past 10 years, a $1,000 investment in Nvidia (NVDA -1.15%) would have grown to roughly $265,840. A large portion of that rally was fueled by its soaring sales of data center GPUs for processing AI tasks.Unlike CPUs, which only process a single piece of data at a time, GPUs can process a wide range of integers and floating point numbers simultaneously. That key advantage, along with Nvidia's leadership of the discrete GPU market, made ...