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IonQ, the College Park-based quantum computing company, Thursday announced it hit its target technical milestone of 35 algorithmic qubits (#AQ) a full year ahead of schedule.

This milestone was achieved on IonQ Forte and leveraged the unique advantages of IonQs quantum computers, including high-fidelity trapped ion qubits and the industrys only all-to-all connected architecture.

At #AQ 35, IonQs systems will now be more useful than ever for tackling quantum applications, such as those in quantum machine learning and quantum chemistry.

The companys performance results were achieved on IonQs Forte through hardware and software improvements including increasing the systems qubit count, improving optical detection hardware and deploying a new, optimized quantum program compiler.

IonQ adopted #AQ as a primary technical benchmark and has been laser-focused on optimizing across the full quantum computing stack to attain the ambitious targets laid out in the companys roadmap. The higher the #AQ a system offers, the more commercial value IonQ can deliver to customers and partners.

The single-number AQ metric is derived from algorithmic benchmarking protocols established inanindependent industry-wide studyconducted by the Quantum Economic Development Consortium. In this benchmark the most complex circuits, in terms of the number of qubits and number of gates, determine the resulting #AQ score. At #AQ 35, IonQ Forte is capable of considering more than 34 billion different possibilities simultaneously.

IonQs quantum computers are the only systems available on all three major cloud platforms Amazon Braket, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, as well as through direct API access. Current customers taking advantage of IonQs quantum systems includeAirbus,HyundaiMotors and theU.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

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