Trapped Ion News
Latest Trapped Ion news and analysis — 11 articles tagged Trapped Ion on The Robotics Media.
- IonQ says quantum generative model beats classical baselines on satellite SAR change detection — — IonQ ran a Quantum Circuit Born Machine on live trapped-ion hardware against real Capella Space SAR imagery of MCAS Miramar and Réunion Island, showin...
- Germany Backs QUDORA-Led €122M NFQC-1k Consortium To Build 1,000-Qubit Machine — — Germany's BMFTR is putting €122M behind a QUDORA-led consortium - AQT, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Leibniz University Hannover, PTB, TU Braunschweig and...
- IonQ Publishes Blueprint To Break Bitcoin's secp256k1 In 26 Days — — IonQ's September 8 paper compiles Shor's algorithm end-to-end on its Walking Cat architecture, estimating a 19,397-qubit trapped-ion machine could sol...
- IonQ Debuts Superion 256, Its First Quantum Computer Built To Ship By The Hundred — — IonQ on September 8, 2026 unveiled Superion 256, its sixth-generation trapped-ion platform built on Oxford Ionics' Electronic Qubit Control and fabric...
- Quantinuum Locks In $100M CHIPS R&D Award For US Trapped-Ion Manufacturing — — The Department of Commerce finalized a CHIPS Act award of up to $100M to Quantinuum, funding integrated photonics, cryogenic semiconductors and specia...
- Rice University Adds A Temperature Dial To Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulators — — Rice University physicists engineered independently tunable thermal reservoirs for trapped-ion quantum simulators, unlocking finite-temperature simula...
- Quantinuum and Oracle Partner to Deploy Helios Quantum Computer Inside OCI — — Quantinuum's 98-qubit trapped-ion Helios system will be installed in a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data center, giving OCI customers on-demand a...
- IonQ And Sandia Sign MOU To Co-Design Quantum Systems For US National Security — — IonQ has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sandia National Laboratories to align trapped-ion hardware, silicon photonics and software with U.S...
- IonQ Posts Record $80M Q2 Revenue, Raises 2026 Outlook — — Trapped-ion quantum leader IonQ reported record Q2 revenue of $80.1 million, up 287% year-over-year, and closed its $1.8B SkyWater acquisition alongsi...
- IonQ Closes $1.8B SkyWater Acquisition To Own U.S. Quantum Chip Fab — — IonQ received final FTC clearance and will complete its $1.8 billion acquisition of SkyWater Technology on July 31, 2026, becoming the only quantum ha...
- ZuriQ Raises $25.5M Seed To Scale 2D Trapped-Ion Quantum Processors — — ETH Zurich spin-out ZuriQ has closed a $25.5M seed round led by Quantonation to scale its natively 2D trapped-ion quantum processors, fabricated with...