IonQ said on September 23 that its Superion 256 system will become the first on-premise quantum processor at NVIDIA's Accelerated Quantum Research Center. Installation is scheduled for 2027.
IonQ's September 23 release says the processor will connect directly to an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system through NVIDIA NVQLink. Hybrid workloads will be managed with the CUDA-Q platform.
The companies plan to work on hybrid quantum-classical software, large-scale system prototypes and quantum-GPU co-design. IonQ named portfolio optimization and risk modeling, materials science, computational chemistry for drug discovery, and generative AI with distributed quantum algorithms as areas of focus.
Superion 256 is IonQ's sixth-generation platform. The 256-qubit system was introduced September 8, 2026, is available to order, and has first customer deliveries expected in 2027. IonQ's release says the platform has 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, which it describes as a world record set in 2025.
NVIDIA Vice President of Quantum Timothy Costa said every supercomputer will become a quantum supercomputer. IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi said the work points to hybrid quantum-classical computing and said future generations of Superion systems and NVIDIA AI platforms will enable that work.
IonQ was founded in 2015 by Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim and uses trapped-ion quantum computing. The company is headquartered in College Park, Maryland, and went public on the NYSE under the ticker IONQ on March 8, 2021.
IonQ reported record Q2 2026 revenue of $80.1 million, up 287% year over year, and raised its 2026 revenue guidance to $280 million to $290 million. It closed its SkyWater acquisition on July 31, 2026, and also acquired Nexus Photonics.
The announcement follows IonQ's planned Superion 256 supply deal with SDT, as Go Big News reported on September 22.
