IonQ debut on the stock market. Company Becomes First Publicly Traded, Pure-Play Quantum Computing Company

As we reported, the company is now officially trading under the ticker symbol IONQ on the NYSE or New York Stock Exchange. The first of October 2021, saw the company join forces as a SPAC with DMY, and hit the market. Although on the day wider stocks are down just two hours into the opening with the NASDAQ down 0.33%.

We have covered the development of IonQ in their quest to build Quantum Computers based on Ion Trap technologies and their route to market via SPAC or SPAQ or (A special purpose acquisition company).

“Quantum is here, and IonQ is leading the industry with our revolutionary trapped-ion technology,”

Peter Chapman, President and CEO of IonQ

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