IonQ’s Big Surge – Are Quantum Computing Stocks Just Another Bubble?
IonQ’s Growth, Technology and Partnerships IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) is the best-known pure-play quantum company. Based in Maryland, it builds trapped-ion quantum computers accessible via the cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)barchart.com. It also markets quantum networking products – including quantum key distribution (QKD) devices and single-photon detectors – for ultrasecure communicationsbarchart.combarchart.com. IonQ’s current systems (code-named Forte and Forte Enterprise) have helped partners like Amazon Web Services, AstraZeneca and NVIDIA achieve notable speedups in simulation tasksoxionics.com. Behind the scenes, IonQ has been bulking up rapidly. In September 2025 it closed its acquisition of Oxford Ionics (a UK trapped-ion startup), adding new IP