IonQ says it demonstrated entanglement above 1,000 per second between a trapped ion qubit and a solid-state quantum memory, a record for any platform. The photonic interconnect is designed for distributed quantum computing and is also part of a DARPA program. First commercial sales of the platform have been made.

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