'The era of quantum supremacy is just around the corner,' IonQ CEO says

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CEO Niccolo de Masi told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday that major advances in quantum computing are fast-approaching.

“The era of what’s called quantum supremacy is just around the corner,” De Masi said. “It’s coming in quarters and very low single-digit years, and that’s getting people, obviously, pretty excited about the fact that we’ll be able to do things to help every area of applied science.”

IonQ is one of the major players in the quantum computing space, along with Rigetti Computing