IONQ CEO Niccolo De Massi goes one-on-one with Jim Cramer

Company Performance & Market Positioning - Ionq's stock has increased by 476% over the past 12 months and is up 145% from its March lows [1] - Ionq positions itself as a leading quantum internet company, building both powerful, affordable quantum computers and the quantum networks required for secure communication [4][5] - Ionq claims to be racing against China to crack RSA encryption and provide quantum networking equipment to maintain global security [5] Technological Advancements & Partnerships - Ionq has demonstrated quantum advantage twice, including a 20x speedup in partnership with Nvidia and Amazon Web Services [6][7] - Ionq is making breakthroughs in computational analysis, including a protein folding partnership, and is on the verge of simulating molecules with 30-35 atoms [10] - Ionq's technology is advancing rapidly, with compute space doubling sometimes weekly or monthly, leading to potentially millions or billions times more powerful machines than classical computers [19][20] Industry Perspective & Future Outlook - Ionq's CEO believes the company's quantum processing units will become significantly cheaper than other paths to fully fault-tolerant machines [14] - Ionq's technology has potential applications across various fields, including drug discovery and material science [8][11] - Ionq's early start and technology choices, such as running with less energy at room temperature, give it a commercial advantage [17]