Overview
- IonQ’s stock finished 2025 up roughly 10% for the year but well below its October high of $84.64.
- The company highlights trapped‑ion hardware that it reports has achieved 99.99% fidelity by using identical atoms as qubits.
- IonQ says it employs Quantum Error Correction and offers its Clifford Noise Reduction (CliNR) software to further limit errors.
- Yahoo Finance characterizes the shares as highly speculative given valuation and execution risks despite technical progress.
- Nvidia’s June push into hybrid quantum‑classical computing with CUDA‑Q, following CEO Jensen Huang’s inflection‑point comments, helped refocus attention on the sector.