The company has built its first chips and begun testing prototypes as it seeks to manufacture quantum computers in larger quantities.

IonQ estimates a 20,000-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer could solve Bitcoin’s secp256k1 elliptic-curve problem in about 26 days.

IonQ unveiled Superion 256, a semiconductor-based trapped-ion quantum computer platform designed to support future 10,000-qubit systems.