About Us
IonQ is a leading developer of trapped‑ion quantum computers, headquartered in College Park, Maryland. Its systems are accessible through all major clouds - AWS Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum (e.g., IonQ Aria), and the Google Cloud Marketplace - as well as via the IonQ Quantum Cloud, which supports popular SDKs like Qiskit, Cirq, TKET, and Q# for workflow flexibility. IonQ emphasizes real‑application performance using its Algorithmic Qubits (#AQ) benchmark, reflecting progress on workloads in optimization, simulation, and quantum ML.
Founded in 2015 by physicists Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim, IonQ became the first publicly traded pure‑play quantum computing company in 2021 (NYSE: IONQ). The company continues to expand its platform and ecosystem through cloud integrations and research partnerships anchored around trapped‑ion hardware.