IonQ Superion 256 to Power NVIDIA Quantum Research Center

IonQ’s Superion 256 quantum computer will be the first quantum processor at NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center (NVAQC) - a facility built to advance the integration of quantum processors with state-of-the-art supercomputing hardware to help unlock useful quantum applications

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Sept. 23, 2026 — Today, IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) announced that it will be the first on-premise quantum computing deployment at the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center (NVAQC). The NVAQC is designed to address the fundamental challenges of scaling quantum processors into a new class of accelerated quantum supercomputers. Connecting IonQ’s full-stack quantum systems directly with NVIDIA AI infrastructure will help drive the new breakthroughs needed to turn qubits into useful, large-scale quantum supercomputers capable of solving the world's hardest problems.

As part of the partnership, an IonQ Superion 256 system will be installed at the NVAQC and directly linked with an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system via NVIDIA NVQLink, with workloads orchestrated by the open NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform. The joint research program will focus on hybrid software development and large-scale system prototyping, generating open results and a guide for future AI use cases and quantum-GPU co-design.