By Leo Sun
Publication Date: 2025-11-26 13:30:00
IonQ is still a promising play on the nascent quantum computing market.
Over the past 10 years, Nvidia‘s (NVDA 2.56%) stock skyrocketed 22,660%. That massive rally was driven by its soaring sales of data center GPUs for processing complex machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. It still has plenty of room to grow as the AI market expands, but it’s already the world’s most valuable company with a market cap of $4.3 trillion and probably won’t replicate those millionaire-making gains over the next decade.
Therefore, investors who are searching for the next Nvidia might want to look at the nascent quantum computing market instead of the saturated AI market. Let’s see if one of the early movers in that market — IonQ (IONQ +0.64%) — could deliver those life-changing returns.
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What sets IonQ apart from other quantum computing stocks?
Classical computers, including Nvidia’s GPUs, store their data in binary bits of zeros and ones. Quantum computers can store those zeros and ones simultaneously in qubits, which allows them to process certain computing tasks at a much faster rate.
Quantum computers are still mainly used for niche research projects because they’re bigger, pricier, more fragile, and less energy-efficient than classical computers. While they can process more data, they tend to generate a higher percentage of errors. But over the next few years, quantum computers could become smaller, more resilient, and more…
