IonQ and SkyWater Technology are proud, for the first time, to share our combined full-year financial guidance.
Watch @NiccoloDeMasi and Inder Singh share the full view in our Investor Day livestream today, September 8, at 12:30 PM ET → investors.ionq.com/events-an…
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The first complete, end-to-end fault-tolerant resource estimate for running Shor’s algorithm—the team used IonQ’s Walking Cat architecture to demonstrate how a specific application can be optimized for a trapped-ion quantum computer.
This work concludes that a 20,000-physical-qubit IonQ quantum computer, once developed, is expected to be able to break secp256k1, the 256-bit elliptic curve used by blockchain technology such as Bitcoin, in just under 26 days.
This architectural and resource-estimation study is consistent with IonQ's publicly stated roadmap, which targets systems with the relevant capabilities in the 2028 timeframe.
Watch Chris Ballance share the full view in our livestream today, September 8, at 12:30 PM ET → investors.ionq.com/events-an…
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One of the largest commercial quantum security agreements ever announced in the U.S. has been signed by @Congruity360 and IonQ. Congruity360 is adding IonQ’s quantum key distribution (#QKD) on top of post-quantum cryptography to protect sensitive enterprise data for clients across the U.S.
Read the full announcement → ionq.com/news/ionq-and-congr…
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Introducing SkyWater Quantum Solutions offerings led by Dr. Mihir Bhaskar, now in the role of Senior Vice President & General Manager, Quantum Technologies, SkyWater.
SkyWater Technology Quantum Solutions offers:
🔸 SC250 superconducting platform
🔸 SP90 photonics platform
🔸 A superconducting quantum-development program in partnership with Nobel laureate Dr. John Martinis's Qolab.
Watch Mihir Bhaskar share the full view in our livestream today, September 8, at 12:30 PM ET → investors.ionq.com/events-an…
Read the full announcement → skywatertechnology.com/skywa…
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Today we debut IonQ Superion 256, our 256 physical qubit system, and the IonQ Superion product line. Developed in partnership with SkyWater Technology, it operationalizes our Walking Cat architecture for full fault-tolerant quantum computing, the blueprint for scaling beyond 10,000 qubits by 2028.
Watch Chris Ballance share the full view in our livestream today, September 8, at 12:30 PM ET → investors.ionq.com/events-an…
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Superconducting technology is moving from custom development to repeatable wafer manufacturing thanks to a new partnership between SkyWater Technology and Qolab.
The framework provides Qolab with greater visibility as it scales its commercial model, and SkyWater is investing in dedicated quantum tool upgrades to accelerate this transition.
Read the full announcement → skywatertechnology.com/skywa…
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We are proud to receive a $28 million contract extension, with an additional option of $30 million, through Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (@DARPA)'s "It's About Time Program."
IonQ will deliver 125 atomic clocks to the U.S. government for mission-critical
applications, including:
🔸 Radar
🔸 Secure communications
🔸 Precision geolocation
To support delivery, we will invest $15 million in dedicated production space, advanced manufacturing and test equipment, and support staff.
Read the full announcement → ionq.com/news/updated-darpa-…
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Scott Millard retweeted
$IonQ Great work up by @TechInnovationz on Philip Farah, @IonQ_Inc VP Global / Emerging Markets & Strategic GTM, at Quantum Korea 2026 in Seoul. Full session below, uncut. Definitely worth watching.
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"Anybody who tells you that they have a good sense of what can be created is lying to themselves. Nobody has an idea."
That is Philip Farah, @IonQ_Inc VP Global / Emerging Markets & Strategic GTM, at Quantum Korea 2026 in Seoul. Full session below, uncut.
His pitch, stripped down.
IonQ is the largest pure play quantum company in the world, and the only one with every quantum technology under one roof. Computing, networking, security, sensing, space through Capella. Not a shopping list. Wire a sensor to a computer over an entangled network and the sensor yields up to 10,000 times more information. None of it works unless you own the integration end to end.
The bill: over $4 billion of acquisitions in two years. The latest, SkyWater, still awaiting approval.
Then he stops selling qubits. Forget counts, speeds, feeds. The only question is time to a usable answer. On his slide: AstraZeneca, 656x faster than AWS's best published implementation.
The clock. McKinsey breaks RSA-2048 around 2035. IonQ's roadmap says 2029. Google says 2029 too.
"We don't have much time left."
Then the vertigo. Every qubit doubles the computational space. 36 to 100 doubled it every 10 days. 100 to 1,000, every two hours. 10,000 to 2 million, every minute. Moore's law took two years, and Moore's law gave us the internet, mobile phones, the cloud, LLMs.
He never once oversells it. Pushed to prove the qubit ratio holds at scale, he pointed at IonQ's 99.99% fidelity, then admitted there are "much smarter people than me in the organization."
So what is he in Seoul to sell? Not a machine.
"It doesn't mean to just sell our infrastructure." It means the hub around it. Training the next generation. Bringing in startups. Securing government communications.
Korea is where tt lands. A machine going on KISTI's premises. Seoul wired to 48 sites. Talks open on moving manufacturing in.
#QuantumKorea2026 #Quantum #Korea #KISTI
Scott Millard retweeted
2) Important paper on quantum-enhanced LLM fine-tuning. 24% reduction in classification error. Favorable energy scaling. One of the first measurable energy-to-solution for hybrid GPU/QPU AI workloads. Expect a truckload of this in the coming months: arxiv.org/pdf/2605.02798
Scott Millard retweeted
People will notice the @IonQ_Inc performance today and the last few weeks. Important, and @SkyWaterFoundry news is important. I'm heads down on execution and tech, and there are two things I would notice instead😀. Inline.
Replying to @IonQ_Inc @NiccoloDeMasi
“As a result, we are raising our revenue expectations for the full year to $270 million at the high end, based upon the strong and growing demand for our leading quantum computers, as well as the commercial impact of our entire quantum platform.” - Chairman and CEO @NiccoloDeMasi
“Creating a statewide quantum network in Florida will mark another major milestone in the deployment of IonQ’s global quantum platform,” said @NiccoloDeMasi, Chairman and CEO of IonQ.
Read our full announcement with Florida LambdaRail: ionq.com/news/ionq-and-flori…
"Today we made a deal with IonQ to start a phase one - of quantum securitizing our Lambda Rail starting with Miami Dade College, Palm Beach State College and Florida Atlantic University to spread it from there. That physical infrastructure... that fiber optic connection, that's how our universities, colleges partner - share classified confidential research and work with military assets."
J. Alex Kelly, Florida Secretary of Commerce, announced yesterday at #eMergeAmericas a new partnership with IonQ. Stay tuned for details.
Coming to you from Miami Beach: @IonQ_Inc and @QuantumCoast brought together leaders across academia, government, and industry as part of this week's @eMergeAmericas event.
We were honored to be with pioneers from @FloridaAtlantic, @PBStateCollege, @MDCollege, @FIU, @UCF, @UF, @univmiami, and @FloridaState who are building alignment for the broader Florida Quantum initiative - where capital, research institutions, operators and policymakers are all joining together to drive momentum.
Thank you @_SMillard and @mattcimaglia for your leadership. @FLACommerce @BDBPalmBeach @QuantumDaily
Scott Millard retweeted
Happy #WorldQuantumDay! To my @IonQ brothers and sisters out there - I love working with you. To our customers and partners - THANK YOU. You make our world go round. Here's my take on one bit o' news: Time to Solution Part II: Revenge of the Data. medium.com/@sakacc/reality-r…
Scott Millard retweeted
Hey world - tomorrow is #WorldQuantumDay! To the customers and partners we will see at @NYSE tomorrow, I can't WAIT! For those that are curious and want to be part of the fun there are lots of juicy, deep, technical posts and information inbound - follow @IonQ_Inc for more!
Scott Millard retweeted
Capella is proud to be awarded a $48.9M agreement under the @SemperCitiusSDA's HALO Europa Track 1 program to demonstrate advanced tactical space communications in low Earth orbit.
Read the full press release: hubs.la/Q049X9pl0
Scott Millard retweeted
$IONQ See link below for another great lecture with IonQ Chief Scientist, Chris Monroe. Some interesting comments:
1. When describing Oxford Ionics architecture and two qubit gate fidelity, he says twice that they are actually very close to (but just under) 5 9s (99.999%). Oxford Ionics currently holds the world record at 4 9s (99.99%). So they are potentially very close to another order of magnitude improvement.
2. He confirms he is spending alot of time now in Boston and is excited to work with the Lightsynq team on photonic interconnects. He also describes it as a major collaboration with Duke, and says a number of his Duke students are with him. More importantly he describes Lightsynqs technology as "black magic" due to its ability to easily connect to fiber with no loss, and says it is potentially a 100x improvement (Ionq previously described it as up to 50x improvement).
3. Chris once again says that the large companies are making a huge mistake with their superconducting chips. Says they dont know what they are doing, and thag he thinks new big companies will lead quantum.
4. Says trapped-ions connected on distributed basis is only known way to scale with all to all connectivity. He thinks all to all connectivity and less error correction is much more important then gate speed, and can still lead to faster solution time.
youtube.com/watch?v=czJ7vp2g…
Scott Millard retweeted
Hey. Thanks for reading that 😀. The team was proud of this (team = app team, Kipu team, and the team that built the system), and I think rightfully so. The decomposition technique has durable value also, FWIW. Net: real impact now, even more tomorrow.
$IonQ IonQ officially publishes the portfolio optimization results on their blog today. The arxiv paper we covered weeks ago is now corporate communication. That’s a signal.
Quick recap for those who missed it:
→ 250 assets from the S&P 500, real market data (2020-2025)
→ Executed on three systems: IonQ Forte (36 qubits), Forte Enterprise (36 qubits), and a 64-qubit Barium dev system described as “similar to the forthcoming IonQ Tempo line”
→ Co-authored with @KipuQuantum same BF-DCQO algorithm from the protein folding
Results
→ Co-authors include Marco Pistoia (IonQ Italia), Enrique Solano (Kipu Co-CEO), Martin Roetteler (IonQ VP Quantum Software)
What the blog makes explicit that the paper didn’t emphasize:
→ Trapped-ion all-to-all connectivity is a structural advantage for dense financial QUBO problems. Superconducting processors need SWAP routing that multiplies circuit depth and errors. IonQ doesn’t.
→ The pipeline is hardware-generation agnostic. Each qubit count increase reduces decomposition error within the same architecture. No redesign needed.
→ Multi-QPU parallel execution is the production scaling model.
Connect this to what Inder Singh said at the Cantor conference 12 days ago: “It’s nice to have the iPhone. It’s better to have the App Store with it.” Portfolio optimization is the App Store.
And recall Cantor Fitzgerald is both hosting Singh’s presentation and advising IonQ on the $1.8B SkyWater acquisition. The S-4 filed last week confirms it. The financial world is watching.
🔗 ionq.com/blog/quantum-comput…
Full scoop 👇
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