IonQ Path to Thousands of Qubits and Quantum Supremacy | NextBigFuture.com

Quantum Supremacy is defined as the point when quantum computers become faster than regular computers. Quantum computers can become thousands of times more powerful when the number of qubits are doubled. In December, 2018, IonQ announced at the Q2B conference that they had loaded trapped ion systems with 79 qubits for processing and 160 qubits for storage. IonQ could achieve quantum supremacy in 2020 or 2021 with 100-200 processing trapped ion qubits. Trapped ions are atomic scale and can potentially have 99.999% qubit fidelity. IonQ has achieved 99.5% fidelity. Trapped Ions can have very long coherence times which enables far