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IonQ is a publicly traded company (NYSE: IONQ) building trapped-ion quantum computers and related error-correction and software technology.
IonQ agreed to buy cybersecurity firm Elisity for up to $1.3 billion in stock, including up to $150 million in earn-outs. IonQ says the purchase opens enterprise and government channels for its quantum offerings.
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Amazon, IBM and the White House expect the first fault-tolerant quantum computers around 2028 or 2029, a timeline that has shortened in recent years. Investors have followed, pushing IonQ up more than 300% since 2024, well before any fault-tolerant machine exists.
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North Gyeongsang plans a 175 billion won hemp-to-medicine supply chain in Andong by 2030 as part of a 1.5 trillion won plan for four foundries. Pooling provincial capital, private funds and policy financing is meant to cut what companies spend before production starts.
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IonQ says its photonic link entangled a trapped-ion qubit with a solid-state memory more than 1,000 times a second. That answers the speed question for modular quantum machines.
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DARPA moved four quantum firms, Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ, into the final stage of its benchmarking programme, joining Microsoft and PsiQuantum. Buyers hearing quantum pitches now get a government check of six designs against a 2033 goal of a machine worth more than it costs.
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The 0.02% timing overhead comes from IonQ's own simulations of 88 memory blocks and magic factories, posted to arXiv. For anyone working through a cryptographic inventory, the readiness deadlines stand where they were.
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IonQ researchers report a real-time error-correction decoder that added under 0.3% to runtime at a CNOT error rate of 10^-4, and under 12% at five times that rate, on workloads simulated against the company's own proposed architecture.
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King Charles brings the leaders of Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic to Ayrshire this week to weigh a charter of principles the Ditchley Foundation has drafted for them. The push to slow down came from inside the labs.
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Nvidia's CUDA-Q Logical simulates logical qubits, error-correction codes and QPU architectures side by side. The two customer results it launched with come from an architecture startup and a national lab, and both are models.
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Korean investors turned net sellers of US equities in the first eleven days of September, but take out the $677.44 million of SOXL they sold and the rest of the book was a net purchase of $546.43 million.
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Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail contest drove a point-addition resource score from 10.75 billion down to 1.496 billion. Neither IonQ nor Google has built the machine, and the end-to-end attack estimates that matter are still theirs.
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IonQ's September 8 paper puts one secp256k1 key at just under 26 days on 20,000 physical qubits. The company's roadmap reaches 10,000 fault-tolerant qubits in 2027 and names no year for the larger machine.
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A 60 per cent chance of a quarter-point hike prices about 15 basis points of tightening and knocked IonQ down 4 per cent, but no discount rate explains why the Defiance Quantum ETF is up 36 per cent while D-Wave is down 34.
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Superion 256 opens for orders with deliveries due in 2027. The six tapeouts IonQ ran in half a year say more about whether its 2028 fault-tolerance date is real than the qubit count does.
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The 26-day figure is a runtime rather than a date, and it works out to one logical Toffoli every 57.6 milliseconds on trapped-ion hardware whose scale IonQ's roadmap does not reach until 2028. No error rates are published to check it.
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A single-developer scheduler spanning IBM, AWS and IonQ logged a 1822:1 queue-to-execution ratio, and sending the same circuit to a different processor cut its error from 6% to 3%, so routing decides both the wall clock and the error budget.
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Federal dollars are no longer the binding constraint in US quantum. Two dated milestones, one vendor and one state, are what a migration plan can actually be built against.
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