Few words on
$IONQ:
It actually started to look like a no-brainer.
The single most asked question about it is how many logical qubits it has. Nobody knows. The company doesn't publish a number, and anyone who claims a precise one is guessing.
That won't matter.
Because what the market is really underwriting here isn't a qubit count. It's a chip design cycle, and
$IONQ just collapsed it.
The Skywater acquisition made
$IONQ vertically integrated. It owns its own fab, its own photonics, its own packaging. Before that, a design iteration meant queuing behind foundry partners and their priorities. That cycle ran nine months.
It now runs two.
In quantum, the winner isn't whoever has the most qubits, it's whoever can iterate fastest. Every architecture in this field is still being discovered, which means the compounding asset is the number of learning loops you can run per year.
Nine months gives you one. Two months gives you five or six. That's not a marginal improvement, it's a different dimension.
Yes,
$IONQ is expensive and the roadmap has slipped before. That's the execution risk you're asked to price.
But a vertically integrated company that can spin a chip design every eight weeks is a fundamentally different bet than a fabless one publishing a roadmap and hoping a foundry delivers it.
The logical qubit question will eventually answer itself.