Partnership expands

IonQ’ s UK presence, accelerates IP generation and brings advanced quantum systems and capabilities to

Cambridge.

The collaboration is designed to accelerate quantum research commercialisation, expand IonQ’ s intellectual property portfolio, and deepen the company’ s commitment to the United Kingdom’ s quantum ecosystem.

As part of the initiative, the parties intend to deploy IonQ’ s 6th-generation, chip-based, 256-qubit system on campus and provide access to IonQ’ s quantum cloud, supporting advanced research and workforce development across quantum computing, networking, sensing, and security.

The partnership will generate significant innovation and intellectual property to be shared under established licensing terms. The structure of the agreement is designed to align academic research incentives with commercial outcomes and long-term industry impact.

“ This historic agreement with Cambridge deepens IonQ’ s commitment to the United Kingdom and accelerates our technology platform with novel research at one of the world’ s most storied physics powerhouses,” said Niccolo de Masi, Chairman and CEO of IonQ.

“ By establishing the IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre, we are strengthening the bridge between academic discovery and commercial quantum advantage. We believe this partnership will contribute meaningfully to the UK’ s commitment to advancing scalable quantum computing, networking, sensing and security.”

“ We’ re proud that Cambridge is at the heart of the UK’ s next computing revolution,” said Professor Deborah Prentice, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

“ This new and ambitious partnership is the first of its kind for a UK university. It’ s not just a new facility for Cambridge – it’ s one for the whole of the UK, and it will develop not only exciting new

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