The Classical Advances Needed to Make Quantum Computers Tick

# Quantum Computers Need a Hidden Team of Regular Computers to Actually Work Quantum computers are incredibly powerful but also incredibly fragile—their core components constantly need adjustment and error-checking to function properly. Companies like Nvidia, IBM, and Google are racing to build the traditional computer systems and software that will handle all this behind-the-scenes maintenance work, because without that supporting infrastructure, quantum computers won't be able to deliver on their promise of solving impossible problems.