IonQ opens the first quantum computer manufacturing plant in the United States

The first one opened in the US on Friday.a specialized enterprise for mass production of quantum computers. The doors of the plant were opened by IonQ in the presence of a delegation from the authorities of the State of Washington. IonQ quantum computers look like ordinary server racks, and this is why they are winning over customers, including a number of the largest companies from the United States, the Pentagon, and even the Swiss company QuantumBasel.

About the construction of a unique production facility for the USAwas announced just over a year ago. The enterprise is located on an area of ​​6,000 m2 in the Seattle suburb of Bothell. In addition to assembly shops, the company’s quantum data center with cloud access (the second in the United States), research centers and a scientific campus will be deployed on the territory of the enterprise. IonQ was not satisfied with what had been achieved and announced the expansion of the site to more than 9000 m2.

Currently the company is able to produceand supply customers with Forte quantum systems on 35 algorithmic qubits (AQ), and in the future they will launch the assembly of Tempo systems on 64 AQ. Thanks to quantum laws, the Tempo system will be more productive than Forte not by two times, which would be expected from conventional classical computers, but by 536 million times, for which we love and wait for quantum computers. They have unprecedented potential in the field of calculations, but we cannot yet manage these capabilities even at the initial level.

However, there is a queue for IonQ computersHyundai Motor Company, Airbus, GE Research and others lined up. The military wants to purchase two systems, and two more systems are waiting in Switzerland. This comes as leading cloud platforms already provide access to IonQ quantum platforms, including Amazon Braket.

The IonQ quantum platform relies on qubits fromions under laser control. Such systems do not require cryogenic cooling, or at least are cooled to relatively high temperatures. This makes working with them convenient and quite reasonable in terms of costs. Someday, factories for the production of quantum computers will open in batches, but the first one will remain so forever.