In fault-tolerant quantum computing, raw qubit counts only tell half the story. Operational speed matters just as much. And that efficiency has a dollar value. A major challenge with high-rate qLDPC error correction has been operational latency during logical gate execution. If a machine spends too much time on error correction cycles, execution slows to a crawl—eroding the practical value for enterprise workloads. Our team, Mark Webster and @nic_delfosse, has demonstrated a new hybrid physical/logical execution strategy—which performs error correction cycles in parallel with gate execution rather than idling the system—slashing these delays and achieving up to a 74x speedup on logical Clifford operations and up to 5x on Toffoli gates (the key primitives required for algorithms where quantum advantage is expected). What does this mean for commercial and government leaders assessing quantum systems? 🔸 Faster timelines to quantum advantage: Essential algorithms in material science, financial modeling, and logistics become practical sooner than previously anticipated. 🔸 Higher value per machine: Accelerated logical gates translate directly to higher shot output per unit of runtime—maximizing the computational ROI. 🔸 Shift to next-gen metrics: Enterprise relevance isn't just about physical qubit counts. Metrics like logical execution rate and quantum error correction scheduling efficiency will define commercial leadership. Read the blog → lnkd.in/gNScEFuW Read the paper → lnkd.in/eE4cKWm9 #IonQ #QuantumIsNow #WalkingCat #QEC #qLDPC #QuantumComputing

A lowkey $IONQ healthcare integration. @genejchan @Rick101284 @DesFrontierTech @HannaSuds @paullecoque @TechInnovationz

🎉 Exciting news: The first on-premise quantum computing deployment at the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center (NVAQC) will be an @IonQ_Inc Superion 256 system, connected to NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 via NVQLink with workloads orchestrated by NVIDIA CUDA-Q. "As the first quantum processor to sit alongside the NVAQC’s GB200 NVL72 system, IonQ’s Superion 256 will help make breakthroughs allowing the global ecosystem to integrate QPUs with AI infrastructure, build using open models and open-source software, and advance toward scientifically useful quantum supercomputers.” - Timothy Costa Learn more ⤵️

Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America

Please do Treasury Direct next! 🙏 @shl TreasuryDirect.gov is convoluted and hard to use, it’s out of reach for most people. It doesn’t have to be this way. Make it free and easy for all Americans to get high yield AND participate in funding their government!

Looks like $IONQ 256 systems are going for $25MM, and $8MM for quantum memory

$IONQ $QNT System Deployments for those keeping count: IonQ: 1. NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center (Superion) 2. University of Cambridge (Superion) 3. Florida International University (Superion) 4. QuantumBasel (Superion & Tempo) 5. Horizon Quantum (Superion) 6. KISTI (Tempo) 7. EPB Quantum Center (Forte) 8. UChicago (System not Identified) 9. Air Force Research Lab (System not Identified) 10. UK NQCC (Quartet) 11. Cyberagentur (MinION) 12. SDT Inc. (Superion) Quantinuum: 1. Riken (H1 & H2) 2. Singapore NQO (Helios) 3. Oracle (Helios)

Huge congratulations to @HannaSuds and her team on the new “Land, Sea, Air and Space” report. It is one of the clearer public treatments of why a real-time decoder that fits on a single laptop CPU matters, and how that result sits inside the full-stack platform $IONQ has built. The China comparison and the nine recommended actions for Washington are especially useful. Strongly encourage anyone following @IonQ_Inc, quantum infrastructure, or national security to read the full piece. 👇 x.com/HannaSuds/status/21027…

$IONQ Working with NVIDIA made the Superion 256 easier to host Chad Sakac, SVP of Quantum Field Engineering at IonQ, shared the detail on X after the news. Months of joint work on NVIDIA's quantum research center made the Superion 256 less demanding on space and power, and more tolerant of interference and vibration. You rarely see that with frontier tech, he notes. That detail is what makes NVIDIA's line this week concrete. "Every supercomputer will become a quantum supercomputer" needs the quantum computer to fit in the room where the GPUs already live, and the Superion 256 is being tuned for that room. Chad says Tempo systems are being deployed and more and more Superion 256 systems are being sold, several of them last week, with announcements in progress. GPU + QPU designs come up in his conversations every day. SDT's purchase for a customer in South Korea came out on Monday. First Superion 256 deliveries are expected in 2027. #IonQ #NVIDIA #Quantum

The NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center (NVAQC) will have its first on-premise quantum computing deployment: an IonQ Superion 256 system. “We see this as the beginning of an exciting era of hybrid quantum-classical computing," says our CEO @NiccoloDeMasi. The NVAQC is designed to address the fundamental challenges of scaling quantum processors into a new class of accelerated quantum supercomputers. Connecting IonQ’s full-stack quantum systems directly with @nvidia AI infrastructure will help drive the breakthroughs needed to turn qubits into useful, large-scale quantum supercomputers capable of solving the world's hardest problems. Our quantum processing system will link directly with an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system via NVIDIA NVQLink. Workloads will be orchestrated by the open NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform. Read the full announcement → ionq.com/news/ionq-to-advanc… #IonQ #QuantumIsNow #QuantumComputing #QPU

Today we share a major milestone in fault-tolerant quantum computing: Our researchers have successfully demonstrated the industry’s first end-to-end real-time decoder capable of decoding a large-scale universal fault-tolerant quantum computer. Moreover, it runs on a single standard off-the-shelf central processing unit (CPU). This is a path to more cost-effective quantum systems at scale and millions of operations without slowing down the execution of quantum applications. See more insights from @nic_delfosse, our QEC research lead, and John Gamble, Vice President at IonQ Architecture in the full announcement → ionq.com/news/ionq-demonstra… #IonQ #IonQSuperion #QuantumIsNow #QuantumComputing #QuantumErrorCorrection #QEC

RT @Rick101284: $IONQ DOE announces $100M Prize Pool to be split amongst participants who are able to deliver a QC with 100 logical qubits.…

Quantum World Congress is just around the corner! We’ve lived and breathed quantum in College Park for over a decade. So we're thrilled to welcome members of the global quantum ecosystem here next week. Hear from our CEO @NiccoloDeMasi at his keynote on Thurs, Sept. 24. And meet with leaders including: 🔸 Inder M. Singh, CFO and COO 🔸 Robert Cardillo, Executive Chairman of IonQ Federal 🔸 Dean Acosta, Chief Corporate Affairs & Government Relations Officer 🔸 @jordan_shapiro, President, Quantum Platform Quantum is not just progressing—it’s accelerating—and we can’t wait to share insights from our backyard. What happens next changes everything. See you when you get here. #IonQ #QuantumIsNow #FutureOfQuantum #QWC2026 #QuantumWorldCongress

$IONQ is leading a Cambrian explosion in real-world applications of quantum computing. They are presenting 9 peer-reviewed papers at IEEE's Quantum Week, some of them award-winning, covering areas as diverse as: 🔳Protein Folding and Chemistry 🔳Freight Logistics 🔳Fluid Dynamics 🔳AI Model Fine-tuning 🔳Linear Algebra Workflows 🔳Clinical Data Interpretation These seem to be mostly coming from work done on Tempo/Tempo-like machines, which are already giving us practical results that are night-and-day compared to older machines. If this pattern holds, one can only imagine the further quantum leaps (tsk tsk) we will see going from Tempo to Superion 256 and beyond. ionq.com/news/ionq-to-presen…

Big news: We designed a specialized walking cat architecture capable of breaking 256-bit ECC with 20k qubits. We optimized the algorithm, the compilation and the architecture. Some of my favorite improvements: a CCZ gate 31x faster, the frame cleaning through logical CliNR, mobile cat bundles, the integrated routing and beautiful algorithmic bounds. Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.05625

$IonQ Alot to digest. What stood out to me today: ➡️ Compute: Finally get a name for new architecture. Deployments still on track for early 27. First time hearing Chris Ballance describe its "quantum multiplex ion" IP as a key part of its secret sauce to scaling individual qubit cells to dense qubit arrays. IonQ has built more QPUS in last 6 months then it did previously combined, and is projecting 100 learning cycles per year. No one else is doing this. ➡️ Foundry: 9 quantum customers and new superconductimg customer Qolab. Interesting that IonQ gave Qolab time to speak, maybe something more going on here behind the scenes. Tom Sonderman also didnt hold back when describing his foundry competition: 1) Global Foundary is not built to be an innovation engine (he used to work there), and IBM is now starting from scratch after previously selling its foundry to GF. IonQ is the only quantum foundry, and good luck to anyone trying to keep up. ➡️ Interconnects: IonQ achieves new world record optical entanglement rates of over 1kHz between a trapped ion and a silicon vacancy quantum interconnect. Published paper still on its way. Im of opinion IonQ is sandbagging here (maybe due to national security implications). ➡️ Shor’s Algorithm. First company to publish a complete, end-to-end fault-tolerant resource estimate for running Shor’s algorithm. 20K physical qubits to break secp256k1, could happen next year IMO. ➡️ Italy: Alessio Butti speaking at IonQs investor day speaks volumes about how Italy views its relationship with IonQ. He also noted Niccolo would be flying to Como later this month for event. Maybe we will finally get an Italy update then. Reminder: World Quantum Day in two weeks, my guess is IonQ has a few more announcements to make.

Here’s what 10,000 qubits looks like. $IONQ

Today we debut our 256 physical qubit system: IonQ Superion 256. Our company has evolved through many stages to get to this day: 🔸 From Dr. Chris Monroe and Dr. Jungsang Kim’s foundational trapped ion breakthroughs 🔸 To integrating trapped ions on semiconductor chips 🔸 To adding networking, sensing and security technologies 🔸 To releasing our Walking Cat architecture 🔸 And to adding U.S.-based quantum manufacturing capabilities that underpin the entire quantum ecosystem It’s the first generation in our new line of quantum computers. Read the full announcement → ionq.com/news/ionq-launches-… #IonQ #QuantumIsNow #QuantumComputing #WalkingCat #FTQC

$IONQ Huge news. IonQ is already building its 10k qubit chip, which is expected to reach full fault tolerance reality sometime next year in "lab setting", with 20k qubit chips coming in 2028. Whats not mentioned in the release is that IonQ has also recently stated they expect to release data shortly that its industry leading photonic interconnects (permitting two 10k QPU to be connected) already works.

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… Read the full announcement → ionq.com/news/ionq-launches-… #IonQ #QuantumIsNow #QuantumComputing #WalkingCat #FTQC