{"id":163561,"date":"2025-09-23T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:33:08","slug":"ionq-jumps-after-announcing-tech-breakthrough-on-interconnecting-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163561\/","title":{"rendered":"IonQ jumps after announcing tech breakthrough on interconnecting quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\"><a class=\"inline-stock css-1iix00n\" href=\"https:\/\/robinhood.com\/stocks\/IONQ?source=sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IonQ<\/a> is up more than 3% in premarket trading after <a href=\"https:\/\/ionq.com\/news\/ionq-achieves-significant-quantum-internet-milestone-demonstrates-quantum\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announcing<\/a> \u201ca significant technological advancement in its pursuit of scalable quantum networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Specifically, the company was able to convert photons from visible wavelengths into telecom wavelengths, which it calls a \u201ccritical milestone\u201d that \u201cpaves the way for interconnecting quantum computers over vast distances using the current existing fiber optic infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Technological achievements \u2014 like the <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/rigetti-jumps-as-its-quantum-system-achieves-new-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reduction in error rate that Rigetti achieved<\/a> with its multi-chip quantum computer in July \u2014 have been key catalysts for the industry in the past. What makes this one a little extra special for IonQ is that this progress was made \u201cwith research support from the Air Force Research Lab,\u201d an entity that\u2019s currently partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/rigetti-computing-jumps-on-usd5-8-million-contract-from-the-air-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">multiple firms in the industry to advance its quantum capabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">With little in the way of commercial applications for gate-based quantum computing companies, research and government-linked institutions are a key source of revenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\"> \u201cWe will soon connect two quantum computers over standard wavelengths, opening the floodgates for broadly networked quantum devices using commercial fiber infrastructure,\u201d said Niccolo de Masi, chairman and CEO of IonQ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">IonQ plans to acquire quantum sensor company Vector Atomic, which Needham &amp; Co. analyst N. Quinn Bolton said would help <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/ionqs-purchase-of-vector-atomic-will-support-efforts-to-grow-its-sales-to\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">support the growth of the firm\u2019s business with governments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IonQ is up more than 3% in premarket trading after announcing \u201ca significant technological advancement in its pursuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-163561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}