IonQ CEO on Timeline to Quantum Value
January 10 2025 - 7:45AM
Business Wire
The following is a statement from Peter Chapman, Chairman and
CEO of IonQ (NYSE: IONQ):
Today’s classical computing hardware is limited by computational
capacity and power requirements in ways that will likely prohibit
society from ever being able to solve some of its most pressing
problems.
IonQ’s current #AQ 36 Forte Enterprise systems are already
providing insight to solutions for customers today, and our
upcoming #AQ 64 Tempo systems in 2025 and next-generation #AQ 256
systems will enable us to tackle increasingly complex problems to
deliver near-term business value. One of the areas facing the most
significant potential disruption is strong AI, where we believe
natively quantum AI will outperform classical AI.
Prudent leaders invest in things that have the potential for
near-term returns. By the end of 2023, global quantum investment
had reached $50 billion.* Companies like Amazon, Google, NVIDIA,
IBM, and Microsoft are investing and hiring in the quantum compute
area today.
The world depends on secure communications from financial
services to military applications. IonQ is a leader in quantum
networking, which we believe is as significant a market as quantum
computing.
IonQ also has a history of delivering upon its technical and
commercial milestones.
We anticipate that 2024 results will be at the high end of our
bookings and revenue guidance and are extremely excited about
2025.
We believe that IonQ will be profitable, with sales approaching
$1 billion, by 2030.
* McKinsey, Third Annual Quantum Technology Monitor 2024
Overview, April 24, 2024
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amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
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forward-looking statements. These statements include those related
to IonQ’s position in the quantum networking sector; the expected
progress of IonQ’s systems development; advancement of quantum
computing and quantum networking technology; the Company’s future
financial and operating performance, including our preliminary
outlook and guidance; IonQ’s quantum computing capabilities and
plans; future deliveries of and access to IonQ’s quantum computers
and services; and the scalability and reliability of IonQ’s quantum
computing offerings. Forward-looking statements are predictions,
projections and other statements about future events that are based
on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are
subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual
future events to differ materially from the forward-looking
statements in this press release, including but not limited to:
changes in the competitive industries in which IonQ operates,
including development of competing technologies; our ability to
sell effectively to government entities and large enterprises;
changes in laws and regulations affecting IonQ’s and its suppliers’
businesses; IonQ’s ability to implement its business plans,
forecasts, and other expectations, to identify and realize
partnerships and opportunities, and to engage new and existing
customers; its inability to effectively enter new markets; IonQ’s
ability to deliver services and products within currently
anticipated timelines; its inability to attract and retain key
personnel; IonQ’s customers deciding or declining to extend
contracts into new phases; the inability of its suppliers to
deliver components that meet expectations timely; changes in U.S.
government spending or policy that may affect IonQ’s customers;
changes to U.S. government goals and metrics of success with regard
to implementation of quantum computing and quantum networking; and
risks associated with U.S. government sales, including availability
of funding and provisions that allow the government to unilaterally
terminate or modify contracts for convenience. You should carefully
consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and
uncertainties disclosed in the Company’s filings, including but not
limited to those described in the “Risk Factors'' section of IonQ’s
most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and other documents filed
by IonQ from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. These filings identify and address other important
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results
to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date
they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on
forward-looking statements, and IonQ assumes no obligation and does
not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise. IonQ does not give any assurance that it will achieve
its expectations.
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