Could Rigetti Computing Become the Next IonQ?

When IonQ (IONQ -1.14%) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in October 2021, it called itself the only "public pure-play" on the quantum computing market. It provides its quantum computing power as a cloud-based service, and it's shrinking down quantum processing units (QPUs) with its proprietary "trapped ion" technology. The bears were skeptical of its miniaturization capabilities, running its quantum computing services on Honeywell's machines, and using its proprietary ...