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IonQ CEO tells JEC quantum computing is commercial, energy‑efficient and central to competitiveness
Summary
IonQ's CEO told the Joint Economic Committee that quantum computing is already commercializing across industries, can accelerate drug design and other scientific work, and should be a U.S. investment priority to maintain advantage over China.
Nicolas DiMassi, chief executive officer of IonQ, told the Joint Economic Committee that quantum computing has moved beyond the laboratory and is becoming a commercial engine with significant national‑security implications.
DiMassi described IonQ as a large public quantum firm and said the company has partnered with AstraZeneca, Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA to accelerate computational drug design; he said a recent partnership achieved a 20‑times speedup that turned "nearly a month of…
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