{"id":937634,"date":"2025-06-10T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937634"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T04:16:56","slug":"quantum-computing-firm-ionq-to-acquire-uk-based-oxford-ionics-for-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/10\/quantum-computing-firm-ionq-to-acquire-uk-based-oxford-ionics-for-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing firm IonQ to acquire UK-based Oxford Ionics for $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IonQ will acquire British quantum computing startup Oxford Ionics for $1.075 billion, the Maryland-based quantum computing firm said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Ionics&#8217; founders Chris Ballance and Tom Harty will remain with IonQ after the acquisition is completed, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>In May, IonQ acquired Boston-based startup Lightsynq, which specializes in photonic interconnects and quantum memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IonQ will acquire British quantum computing startup Oxford Ionics for $1.075 billion, the Maryland-based quantum computing firm said on Monday. Oxford Ionics&#8217; founders Chris Ballance and Tom Harty will remain with IonQ after the acquisition is completed, the company said. In May, IonQ acquired Boston-based startup Lightsynq, which specializes in photonic interconnects and quantum memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}