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"It's like watching a supercomputer calculate how many Hobnobs fit in a Sports Direct mug, while solving climate change sits on the 'to-do' list," he said.

Another California-based company, Nvidia, announced Monday that it would begin manufacturing chips and supercomputers in the United States for the first time — a development that was promptly promoted by the president from the Oval Office.

Nvidia on Monday said it is working with its partners to build and test Nvidia Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas, with production ramping up in the next 12 to 15 months.

To help to do that, last year it installed what it says is the fastest supercomputer owned and operated by any pharmaceutical company.

Much of the buzz around the subject in recent years has been about the development of powerful quantum computers which, the narrative goes, will make our fastest supercomputers seem like abacuses by comparison.