Last year IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi said he wanted to make IonQ "the NVIDIA of quantum computing." IonQ on Wednesday said its latest system, Superion 256, will be the first system deployed at NVIDIA's Quantum Research Center. Rather than operating as

2026-09-23

Last year IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi said he wanted to make IonQ "the NVIDIA of quantum computing." IonQ on Wednesday said its latest system, Superion 256, will be the first system deployed at NVIDIA's Quantum Research Center. Rather than operating as a standalone lab device, Superion 256 will function as a dedicated coprocessor integrated with NVIDIA GPU clusters: quantum workloads will be routed to Superion 256 via NVIDIA's CUDA‑Q while NVIDIA GB200 GPUs handle large-scale classical compute and AI tasks, a direct instance of hybrid quantum‑classical supercomputing integration.