IonQ Surges 11% as NVIDIA Research Center Deal Follows Error-Decoder Breakthrough; D-Wave Climbs 5%, Rigetti Rises 4%

IONQ shares jump on Quantum breakthrough

The 'Fast Money' traders talk IONQ shares climbing on Quantum computing breakthrough.

Stock Market Today, Sept. 23: IonQ Surges on Quantum Breakthrough and Nvidia Partnership

Today, Sept. 23, 2026, the trapped-ion quantum computing provider's decoder test and research-center collaboration kept commercialization progress in focus.

IonQ Surges 11% as NVIDIA Research Center Deal Follows Error-Decoder Breakthrough; D-Wave Climbs 5%, Rigetti Rises 4%

IonQ just dropped two back-to-back announcements that sent its stock surging while the broader quantum ETF slipped, and the reason one company is pulling so far away from the pack reveals something important about where the real quantum race is being run.