IonQ Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) shares rose 2.32% to $40.04 in pre-market trading at 06:42 a.m. ET on Monday, after closing Friday at $39.13, down 3%.
The move came as U.S. technology futures were broadly higher, with Nasdaq-100 E-minis up 1.12% at 06:42 a.m. ET.
Earlier this month, the quantum computing company raised its 2026 revenue outlook after completing its acquisition of SkyWater Technology and launched its Superion 256 quantum computing platform, with customer deliveries planned for 2027. IonQ also issued two research updates last week.
IonQ Raises 2026 Revenue Outlook to $450 Million-$460 Million
IonQ on Sept. 8 raised its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to between $450 million and $460 million.
The forecast includes SkyWater revenue from July 31, when the acquisition closed, through Dec. 31. It also excludes estimated intercompany revenue related to the companies’ previous commercial relationship.
IonQ had previously forecast 2026 revenue of $280 million to $290 million, excluding SkyWater.
The company completed its acquisition of SkyWater Technology on July 31.
IonQ said in its second-quarter regulatory filing that the transaction was valued at about $1.8 billion and included roughly 24.1 million IonQ shares and $741.3 million in cash.
Superion 256 Deliveries Planned for 2027
IonQ also announced its Superion 256 quantum computing platform on Sept. 8.
The company said it had fabricated its first fully integrated 256-qubit quantum processing units at SkyWater and trapped the first ions in prototype systems.
IonQ is accepting orders for Superion 256 and said customer deliveries are planned for 2027.
IonQ said working closely with SkyWater’s quantum foundry compressed its design cycle from nine months to two months. The company also said the teams delivered 12 times more wafer lots over a six-month period than at a previous foundry.
IonQ is targeting fault-tolerant operation in a laboratory setting in 2027 and a manufacturable commercial implementation in 2028.
Synopsys Research Shows Up to 14.6% Simulation-Time Reduction
IonQ said on Sept. 17 that research with Synopsys showed reductions in total simulation time when a quantum algorithm was incorporated into the Ansys LS-DYNA engineering simulation workflow.
The companies tested digital models including an automobile, an industrial drill component, a fluid impeller, and a jet-engine assembly.
IonQ said the models included meshes with as many as 35 million data points.
Total simulation-time reductions ranged from 5.9% to 14.6% across the tested models, according to the company.
The numerical simulations used as many as 150 qubits. IonQ also said part of the work was validated on its 36-qubit Forte trapped-ion quantum computer.
The research paper received a first-place Best Paper Award at IEEE Quantum Week 2026.
ORNL, NVIDIA Research Tests AI-Based Quantum Optimization
IonQ on Sept. 16 announced separate research conducted with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NVIDIA, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The study used a trained generative model to generate quantum optimization circuits instead of repeatedly adjusting circuit parameters through an iterative optimization process.
IonQ said the prior state-of-the-art quantum circuit-finding method took about 34 seconds for four-qubit subproblems and more than 11 minutes for 12-qubit subproblems in a benchmark involving 100 decision variables.
The generative approach took about 28 seconds across the tested problem sizes, according to the company.
Both approaches were quantum circuit-generation methods; the study did not compare a quantum solver against a classical solver. The circuits were simulated rather than executed on IonQ quantum hardware, with IonQ describing the results as benchmark-scale validation.
The experiments used NVIDIA cuQuantum software through CUDA-Q on a single NVIDIA H200 GPU at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
IONQon Tokenized Stock Trades Higher
Meanwhile, IonQ Tokenized Stock (IONQon) was trading at $40.03, up 3.12% over the previous 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap data.
Twenty-four-hour trading volume was $263,028, up 7.07%.
About 9,410 IONQon tokens were listed as circulating, with a token market capitalization of about $376,820.
IONQon is an Ondo tokenized representation linked to IonQ stock and is separate from IonQ’s NYSE-listed common shares. The product is part of a broader market for tokenized public stocks, which has expanded across multiple blockchain networks and providers.
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