On September 23, IONQ Inc. rose 12.44% in regular trading, trading at $44.57/share, with turnover of $443 million. The surge was driven by the announcement that IonQ will install its Superion 256 quantum computer at Nvidia's Accelerated Quantum Research Center in 2027.

According to the announcement, the Superion 256 system will connect to Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 system through NVQLink technology, with workloads managed via the CUDA-Q platform. The two companies will collaborate on combining quantum computing with AI systems, with research focusing on financial modeling, materials science, and drug discovery. IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi has previously expressed ambitions to build IonQ into the Nvidia of quantum computing, and the direct hardware integration with Nvidia marks a significant step toward that vision.

The rally was further supported by multiple recent catalysts. IonQ demonstrated the industry's first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder and announced a strategic partnership with South Korea's SDT to deploy the Superion 256 system in the Korean market. The company also recently raised its full-year revenue guidance to $450-$460 million following its SkyWater acquisition, well above the prior FactSet consensus of $289.7 million.

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