Apr 07 2021 54 mins 298
IonQ is the first company solely focused on quantum computing to go public, with its quantum computers accessible via the cloud today. The company’s co-founder/chief scientist Chris Monroe and president/CEO Peter Chapman join Azeem Azhar to explore how they turned cutting-edge research into a scalable product. They also discuss the engineering challenges that remain before quantum systems not only surpass the fastest supercomputers, but also become widely available.
In addition, they address:
- Why IonQ, unlike Google and IBM, have bet on the “trapped ion” approach to building quantum computers.
- How major software innovation could move quantum computing forward.
- Why quantum computers excel at optimization problems involving more variables than classical computers can accommodate.
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Further Reading:
- “Building A Quantum Computer with Light” (Exponential View podcast featuring Jeremy O’Brien, 2021)
- “Quantum computing’s next trick? The power of networked clusters” (Peter Chapman in Wired, 2021)
- “Commercialising quantum computers” (The Economist, 2020)
