IonQ CEO Peter Chapman frequently uses long-term commercialization timelines to anchor investor expectations. However, IonQ’s (IONQ) most critical metric is actually a specific hardware threshold: Algorithmic Qubit (AQ) capacity paired with two-qubit gate fidelity. While it is often obscured by quarterly cash burn figures, this underlying physics milestone is the primary driver of IonQ’s valuation. This analysis focuses on that specific metric.
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