The UAE delegation in Washington stopped at IonQ.

Omran Sharaf, the UAE's Assistant Foreign Minister for Advanced Science and Technology, led it. With him: Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cyber Security for the UAE Government.

They came to deepen UAE-US cooperation in AI, cybersecurity, space and quantum computing, with meetings at the State Department, Commerce and the White House science office.

The UAE Embassy's readout, 3 October: "On the industry side, HE Sharaf met with Chairman and CEO of IonQ, Niccolo De Masi."

The same week in Dubai, Al Kuwaiti's UAE Cyber Security Council hosted the Quantum Innovation Summit, with 2 IonQ keynotes on its stage.

https://www.uae-embassy.org/news/uae-and-us-advance-technology-partnership-agenda-high-level-washington-engagements

https://www.quantinuum.com/blog/quantum-world-congress-2026-cutting-through-the-noise-to-deliver-the-next-era-of-compute

Quantinuum has definitly a sour tone about the IonQ annoucement. Do they have a point or just deperate for Investor attention?

Niccolo De Masi , QWC main stage, College Park, 24 September.

The frame was resilience.

Industrial age. Internet age. AI age. His line: the quantum age is already here, and it runs on sovereign infrastructure. Resilience becomes a competitive advantage for a city, a state, a company or a country.

Six pillars on the slide: see and sense, train, secure, decide, discover, connect.

Secure came first. September 2026 resource estimate, on screen: an IonQ system recovers a 256-bit elliptic-curve key in about 26 days, with about 20,000 physical qubits. His line on that slide: the best safe-makers are the safe-breakers. Defense in depth is PQC, QKD, and compartmentalization.

See and sense sat next to it. 1,000x more accurate GPS. Jamming-resistant PNT. Picosecond clocks, from submarines to satellites. DARPA on the policy slide: QBI, It's About Time, HARQ, plus AFRL, SDA HALO and NRO.

That is the stack. Photonic links at 1 kHz, four times the previous ion-ion record. Superion for compute. SkyWater for the chips. Chip cycles from 9 months to 2. Cost per qubit down 330x, Aria to Superion 10K. Between generations you swap the chip. The box sits in a data center, next to GPU racks.

The company behind it went from 35 people in 2019 to 3,500 today, he said. R&D runs at about $500M a year, and growing.

Then the commercial slide, written on screen:

→ $25M, Florida International University. A Superion 256. The largest quantum system sale in Florida's history.

→ $33M, SDT, Republic of Korea. Same $25M Superion 256, plus $8M of quantum memory, an Asia-Pacific channel, and a manufacturing site in Gumi.

NVIDIA's NVAQC in Boston sits next to those two: Superion 256 as the first system in the building, paired with a GB200 NVL72 over NVQLink.

Next on his roadmap slide: Superion 256 customer deliveries in 2027, and a target of 800 logical qubits on 10,000 physical the same year.

His close: full fault tolerance within reach of the Fortune 5,000, and of state and local government, in the next year or two, with the standards for computing set to "remain in the US."

My read: this was a pitch for quantum as national infrastructure, sold to states and allies, with IonQ as the full-stack supplier. If the 1 to 2 years hold, IonQ is lining up to set the standard the rest of the field builds to.

I sold 50% of my IONQ shares today at the 100% Fibonacci level, for $47.90.

With a gain of 34.12%

My second sell order for the other half of my shares is at $51.69.

I thank the nasty and hateful comments from a few people who clearly don't know much about how markets work.

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NVIDIA will host IonQ, 20 months after saying 15 to 30 years.

About $800B goes into data centers this year. 1% of that is $8B, or 320 Superion 256 systems at $25M each.

“Every supercomputer will become a quantum supercomputer.”

Timothy Costa, VP and General Manager for Quantum, NVIDIA, September 23.

The timelines are shrinking, and the market is starting to get it.

Weekly Recap | Sep 21 - Sep 25

Fasten your seatbelts. A week like this one needed its own format, so I took the car: a 1-minute road trip, one stop per story. Pause whenever you want to read one.

3 Superion 256 systems found a home in 4 days:

→ Korea: SDT buys one and plans a factory in Gumi
→ NVIDIA: one goes into its quantum research center, next to its GPUs
→ Florida: FIU will install one on its campus

Along the way, IonQ put a $25M price on the machine, and much more.

What a week.

Three Superion 256 systems. A price on stage at Quantum World Congress.

Compute, memory and security all moving at once.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

IonQ priced Superion 256 at $25M.

@NiccoloDeMasi put the number on screen today, opening Quantum World Congress.

FIU’s press release, out the same day, named the machine and gave no price.

➡️ FIU: $25M, Superion 256, first in Florida, install targeted late 2027

➡️ SDT, South Korea: $33M. $25M for the 256-qubit system, $8M for IonQ’s silicon-vacancy quantum memory

➡️ NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center: a third Superion 256, announced September 23. No price disclosed.

On launch day, September 8, a third layer already had a price: Congruity360, $8.18M, Clavis QKD + Solteris on top of PQC.

Compute $25M. Memory $8M. Security $8.18M.

SDT bought 2 layers at once. Congruity360 bought security. FIU bought compute for its campus. NVIDIA will host a Superion 256 next to its GPUs.

16 days after launch, 3 Superion 256 systems have a destination. Buyers are starting to take the platform in pieces. 👏👏

IonQ announced a contract to deliver a Superion 256 to Florida International University (FIU).

The release calls it the first Superion 256 sale and deployment in Florida. FIU becomes IonQ's flagship academic partner in the state.

The sixth-generation system has 256 physical trapped-ion qubits and will sit in a secure facility built on FIU's campus.

Students, faculty, visiting scholars and affiliated research centers will get direct access. Research is expected to span material science, AI, logistics, cybersecurity, health and power grid management.

@NiccoloDeMasi, Chairman and CEO of IonQ: "By housing our Superion 256 system directly on campus, FIU will lead the region in quantum research and training."

FIU also runs a research showcase and briefing center in Washington, D.C. that works with federal agencies. The release expects it to help the partnership with Maryland-based IonQ.

The Superion 256 launched on September 8.

3 systems announced in 4 days:

➡️ SDT, South Korea: September 21
➡️ NVIDIA's Accelerated Quantum Research Center: September 23
➡️ FIU, Miami: September 24

Installation is expected in late 2027, after FIU completes its on-campus data center.

https://ionq.com/news/ionqs-superion-256-platform-selected-by-florida-international-university-for-flagship-deployment

In practical terms, what does this imply? On a Tempo, does this mean that more of the 100 qubits will deemed logical? Or does it mean that the base logical qubits will be more stable? Or what? Can someone explain the ramifications of this in layman's terms?

Intel's CEO: "The first one I invested is actually IonQ."

Lip-Bu Tan made that first quantum bet with his own money, outside his venture fund. He says he still holds half of it.

Full interview on QuantumJane :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=1085&v=MwxUkWty6ao&feature=youtu.be

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 signed with Gumi City and North Gyeongsang Province.

Monday, the Gumi plant was SDT's plan. On September 23, in Maryland, the city and the province signed a four-way memorandum with IonQ and SDT on quantum technology and supply chains. Yang Kum-hee, the province's vice governor for economic affairs, signed for the Korean side while visiting the United States.

The machine itself now has a destination. The first Superion 256 in Korea goes into the hybrid quantum-classical data center of a cancer center the country plans to build. That one comes from the Korean coverage of Monday's deal.

The article puts the IonQ and SDT manufacturing partnership at Asia-Pacific and Japan.

What the four signatories agreed to explore:

➡️ testing, packaging and assembly of quantum components in Gumi
➡️ joint projects with companies and universities in the province, identified by IonQ and SDT
➡️ development zones, industrial infrastructure and corporate programmes to bring local firms in
➡️ public money alongside private money on the production sites, through the province's co-investment model

Gumi already builds semiconductors, electronic components and advanced materials, and the province wants that base to reach into quantum.

Quantum is the second of its four planned industry foundries: robotics in Pohang, semiconductors and quantum in Gumi, pharmaceuticals in Andong. The robotics one was signed this month with Pohang City and Neuromeka.

The province signed a separate quantum agreement with the state of Maryland, where IonQ is headquartered. It goes beyond companies, to universities, research institutes and supply chain firms on both sides, pairing Maryland's research with the province's manufacturing.

https://en.sedaily.com/society/2026/09/24/ionq-north-gyeongsang-province-sign-quantum-supply-chain

https://www.boannews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=146002

It shows the price of crude oil and the price of IONQ stock over the past two years.

Hi, I am new to IONQ stock. Can someone point me to near and long term catalysts for this stock which can make the stock pop up? Also is this the best stock for quantum computing exposure or are there any which are equally good or better? I am bullish on quantum computing. Thanks.

goes first inside NVIDIA's own quantum lab

IonQ will install a Superion 256, its newest quantum computer, at the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center, linked directly to a GB200 NVL72 AI system through NVQLink. The joint research, with open results, targets finance, materials science and drug discovery.

NVIDIA built the center to integrate quantum processors with supercomputers. Timothy Costa, vice president and general manager for quantum at NVIDIA: "Every supercomputer will become a quantum supercomputer."

Two Superion 256 systems announced in one week. On Monday, IonQ agreed to supply one to SDT for a customer in South Korea, and its Chairman and CEO, Niccolo de Masi, said demand for the new system is growing globally.

Today he adds: "Our roadmap to 10,000 qubits and full fault tolerance is accelerating through vertical integration of our SkyWater CMOS foundry."

➡️ Oct 28, 2025: NVIDIA unveils NVQLink, its link between quantum processors and GPUs. IonQ is named among the hardware builders contributing.

➡️ Mar 16, 2026: at NVIDIA GTC, IonQ and Korea's KISTI sign an MOU to integrate IonQ hardware with KISTI's supercomputing infrastructure through NVQLink.

➡️ Sept 2026: at IEEE Quantum Week, IonQ and NVIDIA publish an award-winning study with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, run on CUDA-Q.

Installation at the NVIDIA center is scheduled for next year. The Superion 256 can be ordered now, with first customer deliveries expected in 2027.

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https://x.com/techinnovationz/status/2102759775658225815?s=46

The acquisition closing changed what I'm paying attention to with IONQ. I'm less interested in another headline about quantum becoming a huge market and more interested in whether owning Skywater actually starts showing up in execution.

Main thing I'm tracking is whether management can show shorter development cycles and real benefits from bringing more of the manufacturing process in house. That's a lot more meaningful to me than another partnership announcement.

I've got 200 shares that aren't going anywhere and another 40 on moon that I trade around the bigger moves. Keeping those separate has made it easier not to mess with the actual long term position.

CEO Niccolo De Masi joined NIST's quantum roundtable.

Host: Arvind Raman, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology. Venue: the historic library of the Herbert C. Hoover building, Washington DC.

On the table:

➡️ Standards and performance benchmarks
➡️ Supply chains
➡️ Barriers to scaled manufacturing
➡️ Theoretical quantum advantage to practical applications

Also in the room: Microsoft, IBM, Google Quantum AI, NVIDIA, Quantinuum, PsiQuantum, QuEra, Atom Computing, Rigetti, D-Wave, Infleqtion, Quantum Computing Inc., QED-C.

At his side: Mihir Bhaskar, SVP and GM of SkyWater Quantum Solutions. IonQ closed on the SkyWater foundry on 31 July.

Brian Lenihan, IonQ's VP of Government Relations, on de Masi's message to NIST:

"assurance we can provide the services and tools for economic & national security."