Insider Brief
- IonQ has been named a Market Shaper in Gartner’s inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for Quantum Computing, which assesses vendors in the emerging quantum computing market.
- Gartner describes Market Shapers as vendors with experience delivering and supporting systems in commercial environments, while IonQ says the recognition reflects its full-stack platform and progress toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.
- The announcement follows several IonQ milestones, including advancement to Stage C of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, $7.5 million in follow-on funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory, and planned Superion 256 deployments.
PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today announced it has been positioned as a Market Shaper in the inaugural Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant™ for Quantum Computing. IonQ appears in the Market Shapers quadrant of the graphic above.
In the report, Gartner states: “Market Shapers have proven their ability to reliably deliver and support cutting-edge systems in commercial environments, making them generally less risky bets for technology buyers seeking transformation.” Gartner also states: “These vendors are low-risk, high-impact leaders of the emerging quantum market.”
“We’re honored by this recognition from Gartner. We feel this is a significant validation of what our team has built,” said Niccolo de Masi, Chairman and CEO of IonQ. “It reflects years of work on our full-stack quantum platform that customers are using today as well as our consistent execution toward our fault tolerant roadmap. Quantum has now moved out of the lab with accelerating real world use cases and commercial deployment. We believe IonQ is building the quantum ecosystem and setting the industry standard.”
IonQ has announced several milestones this fall. In October, the company advanced to Stage C of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, under an agreement with a potential value of up to $300 million. It also received $7.5 million in follow-on funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory to expand a quantum network in Rome, New York. In September, IonQ demonstrated a real-time quantum error decoder that runs on a single standard CPU. Also in September, the company announced Superion 256 systems headed to Florida International University, SDT in South Korea, and NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center.
Complimentary access to the report is available here: https://www.ionq.com/gartner-quantum-computing-magic-quadrant.
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