{"id":8869,"date":"2026-07-23T00:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=8869"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:17:43","slug":"ionq-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"IONQ updates &amp; Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have refreshed this map, so that I can understand a little bit what&#8217;s going on on IONQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-1024x554.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-1024x554.png 1024w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-1536x831.png 1536w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some comments worth flagging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>High-fidelity gates \/ EQC<\/strong> sits at Genesis\u2013Custom because the 99.99% two-qubit fidelity milestone (Oct 2025, via the Oxford Ionics acquisition) is still novel and a source of differentiation, not yet a productised norm.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>RMQA modular architecture<\/strong> and <strong>Photonic interconnect (Lightsynq)<\/strong> are in Genesis \u2014 both are early-stage scaling bets, hence the movement arrows showing them evolving rightward.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cloud marketplace access (AWS\/Azure\/GCP)<\/strong> and <strong>Developer SDKs<\/strong> are pushed toward Commodity because they ride standardised, widely-available platforms (Braket, Azure Quantum, Qiskit\/Cirq\/tket).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ion-trap chip fabrication (SkyWater)<\/strong> and <strong>Control electronics\/vacuum\/cryo<\/strong> are placed low (invisible infrastructure) and toward Product\/Commodity, reflecting the pending SkyWater acquisition moving fab in-house.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I only mapped capabilities supported by the sources; the acquisition-linked ones (ID Quantique networking, Lightsynq, Oxford Ionics, Vector Atomic, SkyWater) all trace to 2025\u201326 IonQ M&amp;A (not before 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Talent acquisition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2024, IonQ has recruited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Martin Roetteler from Microsoft Quantum to lead Quantum Applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marco Pistoia from JP Morgan to lead Industry Relations \u2022 Rick Muller from IARPA (US Gov intelligent) to lead Quantum Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scott Millard from Dell to lead Global Go-to-Market as Chief Business Officer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paul Dacier from EMC to serve as Chief Legal Officer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dean Acosta from Locked Martin to lead Corp Affairs &amp; Gov Relations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shad Reed from Anduril to lead Public Sector Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Katie Arrington from the U.S. DoD to serve as Chief Information Officer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kate Kemp from DocuSign \/ Airbnb\/ Cisco \/ Intel to serve as Chief People Officer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>ALSO VIA ACQUISTION:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mihir Bhaskar from Amazon AWS (founder of <strong>Lightsynq<\/strong>) to lead Quantum Networking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chris Ballance and the broader <strong>Oxford Ionics <\/strong>team (arguably world&#8217;s best quantum physicists)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have refreshed this map, so that I can understand a little bit what&#8217;s going on on IONQ. Some comments worth flagging: I only mapped capabilities supported by the sources; the acquisition-linked ones (ID Quantique networking, Lightsynq, Oxford Ionics, Vector Atomic, SkyWater) all trace to 2025\u201326 IonQ M&amp;A (not before 2025). Talent acquisition Since 2024, &#8230; <a title=\"IONQ updates &amp; Team\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about IONQ updates &amp; Team\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-computing","category-wardley-maps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IONQ updates &amp; Team -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have refreshed this map, so that I can understand a little bit what&#039;s going on on IONQ. Some comments worth flagging: High-fidelity gates \/ EQC sits at - joapen projects\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IONQ updates &amp; Team -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have refreshed this map, so that I can understand a little bit what&#039;s going on on IONQ. Some comments worth flagging: High-fidelity gates \/ EQC sits at - joapen projects\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"joapen projects\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-22T22:53:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-23T08:17:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1552\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"840\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"joapen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"joapen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"joapen\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217\"},\"headline\":\"IONQ updates &amp; Team\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-22T22:53:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-23T08:17:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":294,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/image-1-1024x554.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Quantum Computing\",\"Wardley maps\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/\",\"name\":\"IONQ updates &amp; Team -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/image-1-1024x554.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-22T22:53:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-23T08:17:43+00:00\",\"description\":\"I have refreshed this map, so that I can understand a little bit what's going on on IONQ. Some comments worth flagging: High-fidelity gates \\\/ EQC sits at - joapen projects\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/image-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/image-1.png\",\"width\":1552,\"height\":840},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/23\\\/ionq-updates\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"IONQ updates &amp; Team\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"joapen projects\",\"description\":\"Just a place to write\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217\",\"name\":\"joapen\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/joapen-mini.jpeg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/joapen-mini.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/joapen-mini.jpeg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"joapen\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/joapen.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/joapen-mini.jpeg\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.joapen.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"IONQ updates &amp; Team -","description":"I have refreshed this map, so that I can understand a little bit what's going on on IONQ. Some comments worth flagging: High-fidelity gates \/ EQC sits at - joapen projects","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"IONQ updates &amp; Team -","og_description":"I have refreshed this map, so that I can understand a little bit what's going on on IONQ. Some comments worth flagging: High-fidelity gates \/ EQC sits at - joapen projects","og_url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/","og_site_name":"joapen projects","article_published_time":"2026-07-22T22:53:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-07-23T08:17:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1552,"height":840,"url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"joapen","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"joapen","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/"},"author":{"name":"joapen","@id":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217"},"headline":"IONQ updates &amp; Team","datePublished":"2026-07-22T22:53:30+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-23T08:17:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/"},"wordCount":294,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-1024x554.png","articleSection":["Quantum Computing","Wardley maps"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/","url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/","name":"IONQ updates &amp; Team -","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-1024x554.png","datePublished":"2026-07-22T22:53:30+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-23T08:17:43+00:00","description":"I have refreshed this map, so that I can understand a little bit what's going on on IONQ. Some comments worth flagging: High-fidelity gates \/ EQC sits at - joapen projects","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png","width":1552,"height":840},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/ionq-updates\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"IONQ updates &amp; Team"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/","name":"joapen projects","description":"Just a place to write","publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23919df2312175fe9c4609203595b217","name":"joapen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joapen-mini.jpeg","url":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joapen-mini.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joapen-mini.jpeg","width":400,"height":400,"caption":"joapen"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joapen-mini.jpeg"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.joapen.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}