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      "text": "The size of the machine is “like a car”\n“I haven’t been at IonQ recently, but I don’t believe many things have changed. The ions themselves used to be suspended in a vacuum chamber, which measured about a foot by a foot. The gates are induced with lasers. So, to induce a gate with lasers, you have to have a stabilized optic table. And the optic table is about the size of a pool table. And there needs to be some controllers and classical computer that stand in a different room. It’s the size of a car plus a table with a desktop where it’s like a classical computer that is plugged in to control all of the quantum hardware. So, it’s like a car plus a separate chair and a computer desk with a classical computer on it.”- Leading quantum computing researcher who has published papers with IonQ’s founders",
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      "text": "IonQ’s computer is “room-sized, like garage size”\n“How big a machine is comes down to what you consider to be the computer. This is all ion trapping and the basis for trapped ion quantum computers; it’s an old theory at this point, so you can find all this stuff in old scientific papers. There’s the actual trap itself, which is where the ions sit, which is really the register. People talk about the CPU. Some people might say that’s the computer. And if you mean the thing that’s doing the computation, you’re talking about something that’s maybe a few square feet. My perspective is the computer is everything that goes into making the computations run. And on that scale, you’re talking about something that is definitely much larger when you have to consider all of the control electronics, all of that stuff; you’re talking about room-sized, like garage size basically, maybe a one-car garage.” – Ex-IonQ employee, physicist",
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