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Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Thu, Feb 26, 2026

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Operator

Operator

Welcome to the IonQ Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Hanley Donofrio, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Hanley Donofrio

Analyst

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to IonQ's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Call. My name is Hanley Donofrio, and I'm the Investor Relations Director here at IonQ. I'm pleased to be joined on today's call by Niccolo de Masi, IonQ's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Inder Singh, IonQ's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. By now, everyone should have access to the company's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings release issued this afternoon, which is available on the SEC's website and on the Investor Relations section of our website at investors.ionq.com. Please note that on today's call, management will refer to non-GAAP financial measures. While the company believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information for investors, the presentation of this information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. You are directed to our earnings release for a reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS to the closest comparable GAAP measures. During the call, we will discuss our business outlook and make forward-looking statements, including those regarding our guidance for 2026. These comments are based on our predictions and expectations as of today and are not guarantees of future performance. Actual events or results could differ materially due to a number of risks and uncertainties. Therefore, you should not put undue reliance on those statements. We refer you to our recent SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, for a more detailed discussion of those risks and uncertainties. We undertake no obligation to revise any statements to reflect changes that occur after this call, except as required by law. Now I will turn it over to Niccolo de Masi, Chairman and CEO of IonQ.

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

Thank you all for joining us on today's historic call. 2025 was a highly successful and transformational year for IonQ, both strategically and financially. Strategically, we expanded our business from leadership in quantum computing to become the world's leading quantum platform solution and merchant supplier. We are the first company in history capable of delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing and security in all major allied geographies. IonQ is the world's only full stack quantum platform company operating in all domains. This strategic expansion is powered by an unmatched intellectual engine as we continue to attract the world's best and brightest quantum leaders as well as the leading quantum IP portfolio. IonQ benefits from approximately 300 PhDs and 800 talented colleagues with advanced degrees, many of whom are household names in their fields. Financially, we delivered a record year, not only for IonQ, but a historic one for the entire quantum industry. In the third quarter of 2025, we delivered nearly as much revenue as we did in all of 2024. In the fourth quarter of 2025, we surpassed this by growing more than 50% quarter-over-quarter. After becoming the first public quantum company to achieve 8 figures of revenue in 2024, we grew to deliver substantially more revenue in the fourth quarter of 2025 than in the entire calendar year of 2024. Strong organic growth powered our full year 2025 revenue to be over 3x that of 2024. Commensurately strong investor interest allowed us to fortify our balance sheet with the 2 largest capital raises from a single investor in Quantum history. Quantum is indeed now, and IonQ is confidently leading this revolution by every measure. As most listeners know, late last month, we announced the largest acquisition agreement in Quantum history and the first public-to-public planned Quantum…

Inder Singh

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

Thank you very much, Niccolo. It really has been an amazing year for IonQ. I'm extremely pleased that 2025 has been such a transformative and record-setting year for us from virtually every lens that I can see from record-setting financial results to exceptionally strong commercial sales globally to unmatched technology breakthroughs like the four 9 fidelity you mentioned. It was the year in which we transformed the company from a single product quantum computing company in 2024 to a full stack quantum platform company, able to deliver not just quantum computing, but as you said, quantum networking, quantum security, quantum sensing, interconnects, laser-based communications, the world's most precise PNT and on and on. In short, from one amazing product to the world's most comprehensive quantum product portfolio. In the process, we also became the Quantum industry's merchant supplier. Yes, as Niccolo noted, we provide components to our pre-group companies in the quantum space. And as you heard from Niccolo, we're not stopping there. We've announced our intent to acquire SkyWater Technologies, already recognized as the most secure fab in the United States. With SkyWater, once it receives regulatory approval, we would have both surety of supply and security in our solutions. With more than $3 billion of cash among our financial firepower, we intend to bring that surety and security in the most advanced and secure products to our customers around the world. Let me highlight our financial results, which help really punctuate what you and I just talked about. IonQ ended 2025 with an exceptional fourth quarter following a record-setting third quarter. Fourth quarter revenues were $61.9 million, even exceeding our own expectations and growing 429% year-over-year. This brought our full year 2025 revenues to $130 million, comprising 202% year-on-year growth. These historically high results mean that IonQ has…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from John McPeake with Rosenblatt Securities.

John McPeake

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

Guys, can you hear me?

Inder Singh

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

We can, yes.

John McPeake

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

Okay. Great. I think the last time I was on mute, and I don't want to repeat that. So congratulations on the numbers and guide. I just have a question about the SHIELD release that came out a couple of days ago. Now that you guys have a pretty broad portfolio of quantum assets, you talked in the release about the $151 billion opportunity. How should we think about what you might be able to address relative to that number?

Inder Singh

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

We'd love to get all of it. No, I'm kidding, John, of course. We are very pleased to be included among the players that might participate in that. We intend to ensure that we deliver based on what we've built, John. And you know that one of the things that we're trying to make sure we are very clear on, maybe do a better job of is explain how we're actually a solution company. We're a platform company. And I think in some cases, we're still being compared against a single product company. And when you look at opportunities like SHIELD or frankly, any other opportunity that we may be looking at, and we are looking at others, too, you need a solution. You need to integrate things together. It's not enough to have a quantum computer that may work one day. It's not enough to have a quantum computer that even works today. You need to be able to link things together. You need networking. You need to be able to bring the quantum security up to industrial scale. You need to ensure that you're able to provide secure communications. You need to be able to make sure that you're able to deliver today, not promise something in 2029. So we're happy to be included in that, John. I mean, I thank you for your question. Yes, we'd love to have our unfair share of it. But I think that we will deliver on the things that we promised, and we think we can do things in a more effective and more complete way than many of the other players that I think we are looked at again. That said, we do these things with humility. We ensure that we have the engineering. We ensure that we have the software. We ensure that we have all the interconnections that are required. It's a solution sale, right, when you look at something like that, John. Niccolo, do you want to add anything to that?

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

No, absolutely. Look, I mean, credit to the team for an outstanding year. We did a lot, obviously, in 2025. And as I said, we're just getting started. So we expect to continue momentum here, and it's not just momentum in each product family, but it's, of course, as Inder really points out between the product families, where we really are inventing the future in multiple dimensions, right? And I think that's what's appreciated to a grand extent by our nation's SHIELD initiative amongst many other appreciators at the moment.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Kevin Garrigan with Jefferies.

Kevin Garrigan

Analyst · Jefferies

Team, congrats on the great results in reaching over $100 million in revenue. On SkyWater, can you just update us on the status of the regulatory approval process? And over the last 30 days since you made the announcement, have there been any unexpected developments, either positive or negative that could impact the timing?

Inder Singh

Analyst · Jefferies

We're still looking at it in the same way that we talked about it last time, and I appreciate your question, and thanks for your comments. It's a regulatory process. It's well defined. It's not that we try to predict how it may go or not go. We think that the model that brings together a merchant player and quantum platform, which is us and a merchant provider of manufacturing services through SkyWater is in the interest of the nation, the industry and all the players in it. And as I said, and as Niccolo said, we're already a merchant supplier. We supply products, components to others that you may call our competitors. We don't see them that way. We think that all players need to succeed, and that's what creates an ecosystem and an industry. This industry needs the same. So we are the pacesetter, yes. We will remain the pacesetter, yes. There's a responsibility that comes with that, and we will live up to that.

Kevin Garrigan

Analyst · Jefferies

Yes. Got it. Got it. Okay. That makes sense. And just a quick follow-up, continuing on the acquisition front. You guys had acquired Seed Integrations (sic) [ Seed Innovations ] at the end of January. Can you just talk about how this company fits strategically within your portfolio and what gaps it fills?

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Jefferies

Sure. So Seed is a software classified mission control business, that really is quite unique. Because almost all their work is classified, I'm not going to go into huge details for you. But you can assume that it is stitching together not just component solutions that we have at IonQ, but it's also helping 3 letter litter agencies and portions of our DOW do the same even before IonQ came along. So it is a unique opportunity for Quantum, not just in the hardware sense, but also in the application sense to be part of what we're doing in programs like SHIELD for the prior question as well as the rest of the broader quantum platform of sensing, security, networking, which we have put together in every theater of operation from under the ocean to on top of the ocean to on land, in the air and up in the heavens. There's a lot going on for the battle for the future, and IonQ very much is well positioned to have, hopefully, our fair share and maybe even a bit more.

Inder Singh

Analyst · Jefferies

And just to add, I mean, the DevSecOps capability and software development that Seed brings to us is actually relevant for all of IonQ. And so we intend to take part in ensuring that Steve is succeeding in everything they're signing up for directly externally, but also, frankly, leveraging their unique capability to help us accelerate in DevSecOps across the company as well.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Craig Ellis with B. Riley Securities.

Craig Ellis

Analyst · B. Riley Securities

Congratulations on the really strong results and the big RPO number, $370 million is quite substantial. I wanted to follow up on the guidance for calendar 6 revenue at the midpoint, $235 million. Can you help give us some color on some of the things that are driving revenues to that level, whether it be the international versus domestic mix of business or whether it be particular programs within your compute networking or sensing capability? And then just a sense, Inder, given the first quarter's guide on the linearity through the year, it would seem to be that there is implied growth, but any color would be helpful there.

Inder Singh

Analyst · B. Riley Securities

Sure. Yes. Thanks for the question. Look, I think not to provide a lot of color underneath the guidance itself, but you can expect that we will continue to globalize the company. So that's also in there. I mentioned a number of countries that was not by accident. I mean we are looking at some amazing opportunities. Frankly, demand is exceeding supply, if I'm allowed to say. And we're trying to ramp up our resources to make sure that we can deliver the fifth-generation machine to as many customers as wanted. We're already starting to see demand for our next-generation machine, the 256 and beyond that. So what gives us confidence, first of all, just in general on the compute platform is the road map that we put out there is resonating. The fact that we are taking our customers on the journey with us is working. The fact that we are forward deploying engineers and application developers with those customers embed this with them. So we feel very comfortable that organic growth of our compute platform will be very strong in 2026, as I mentioned earlier. I wouldn't be surprised if it exceeds 100% growth year-on-year, but that's the direction of travel. The other parts of our portfolio are also performing. The need for and the sense of urgency, frankly, to deploy post-quantum security is taking on a different level of importance that didn't exist a year ago. In fact, we are agnostic as to the type of application that our customers want, whether it's PPC, QKD, but of acronyms, alphabet soup, I won't go through all of that. You know that. We do not have religion around it. We deliver everything. We know that 2 to 3 years from now, you will need all of it. Classical cybersecurity…

Craig Ellis

Analyst · B. Riley Securities

Yes. Sorry to jump in on you, Inder, but there was mention in the transcript of a 256-qubit system by year-end. What should we keep in mind with the notable engineering milestones from here to bring that to market?

Inder Singh

Analyst · B. Riley Securities

Yes. Look, I think you realize that, of course, and you know this, the 256 system and beyond, that entire road map for the next 5 years that we've talked about, is a semiconductor-based road map. It's the ability to use mature node manufacturing that exists today to build out and scale from 256 to 10,000 and beyond. So we are in the process already. And we said this when we announced the SkyWater transaction, we're already looking at them to be a supplier to us even prior to the acquisition announcement and other foundries also. These existing foundries enable us to, with some confidence, drive the development of the 256 into the 10,000 and beyond. As for the 256 itself, I'm happy to report that we've done the tape-outs of A, B and C. And as you know, from semiconductors, those are the most important ones in the beginning. And then the feature-rich, feature driver fourth D tape-out as it's called, is in progress. So not to give you an exact time line that you'll then say you told me it's going to be March 31 or April 1 or whatever. We are very comfortable with the way the development of the 256 is going. It's following the road map that other semiconductor development follows. And then beyond that, it's into tiling, it's into scaling. And we also have the engineering team already beginning to think about the 10,000, not just the 256. Does that help?

Craig Ellis

Analyst · B. Riley Securities

That's very helpful.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from V. K. Rakesh with Mizuho.

Vijay Rakesh

Analyst · Mizuho

Pretty impressive guide and growth for the year. Just a couple of questions. Just wondering, as you look at the fiscal '26 number here, any way to think about -- and the forward quarter, I guess, any way to think about the hardware, software split?

Inder Singh

Analyst · Mizuho

I mean we will provide, obviously, when we report the usual breakouts that we do, which is kind of along the lines of what you described. I think of it less as hardware software. I think -- remember what I said, like the hardware without the software doesn't do much and vice versa. So solution thinking is really what's important. We're trying to think of our business as the only company, frankly, that can deliver entire solution. The compute, the ability to connect one compute device to another, the ability to connect one city to another, the ability to connect ground to space and back to ground again, the ability to provide security across those links, the ability to use Skyloom's OCT terminals to provide secure, high-speed transport for data and secure transport and on and on and on. I remember Cisco, and you'll remember Cisco as well. And I think of other companies that have done this in the past that have not asked for permission. So when Niccolo became CEO exactly 1 year ago, by the way, I think his anniversaries tomorrow, in one short year, we've gone from being a one product company to a platform company. We now have to execute and with responsibility, deliver for our customers what they are now wanting from us. And they're saying, "We will buy your road map, we will buy your solutions. You're bringing the secure solutions together." So it's a unique opportunity for us to actually just go and execute, and that's why this is the year of execution and yes, also continuing to innovate. So watch the space, more announcements, more things, we're not stopping.

Vijay Rakesh

Analyst · Mizuho

Yes. Very impressive. And just one other question. And obviously, you're growing your team pretty nicely here. Any thoughts on when this national quantum initiative, the NQI funding starts to open up? I know you have some pretty solid engagements with the Golden Dome SHIELD, et cetera. But any thoughts on when that national NQI funding starts to open up for the space?

Inder Singh

Analyst · Mizuho

Yes. I mean, thanks for the question. Look, I think that 3 years ago, probably that would have been top of mind for us. Like when does the funding unlock. But with more than $3 billion of cash available to us today and the ability to raise more if we need in the future, the ability to invest ourselves organically, to be candid, I think other companies might be looking for funding to unlock. We're looking for the ability to drive customer value today without the need for like additional funding. I'll let Niccolo add to my comments here, but it's an opportunity, obviously, for the whole industry to benefit if more and more countries focus on quantum in general. I'm starting to see, and Niccolo is the tip of the spear on this for us, but like virtually every government in any country in the world is now including quantum, very close to whenever they say AI, maybe not as many times as they say AI, but almost. So quantum is rising in relevance because it is becoming more real. We are making it more real. And we're making sure that we are -- we have the capital we need. We have the financial firepower that we need to keep investing for the foreseeable future and beyond. And we're fortunate to have investors that are saying to us, there are partners in that journey. Our job is to execute on that opportunity. And so yes, I mean, I think that funding things were important. I think for now, it's more about taking the engineering, building once, selling many times. So we're now getting into the very sort of commercial deployment of everything, quantum, less worried about what funding comes when...

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Mizuho

Yes. I mean, look, we, of course, value our government customers. We value them from all of our allies, and we're growing our IonQ federal team to capture that. But I think Inder said well in his prepared remarks as well as our press release today, 60% of our customers are commercial. That's the primary reason why we're not waiting with bated breath on government unlocks, if you will. That having been said, I do want to point out that we have a very bullish administration in the U.S. vis-a-vis growth in the budget of the Department of War. And within that, there's a considerable allocation to building the future of all things quantum sensing, networking and computing in every war fighting domain. And so IonQ uniquely operates in all of the war fighting domains, and we're uniquely able to sell those complete solutions that we believe the nation and all friendly nations absolutely must need. So watch this space, but we are growing headcount aggressively because we are growing the business aggressively along all of these vectors.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Quinn Bolton with Needham.

Shadi Mitwalli

Analyst · Needham

This is Shadi Mitwalli on for Quinn. Congrats on the strong results. In the prepared remarks, you guys talked about making smaller and cheaper quantum systems. I believe the acquisition of SkyWater is going to help accelerate that. But just curious to hear the puts and takes of how much it cost to make a system today and how you expect that cost trajectory to evolve over the next few years.

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Needham

All right. So I mean, look, what we said at our Analyst Day on September 12 is that our full fault-tolerant machine and machines with hundreds of thousands to millions of physical qubits and thousands to tens of thousands of logical qubits and someday hundreds of thousands of logical qubits, we'll have a 2025 BOM cost, bill of materials cost under $30 million. Obviously, there's inflation each year. And the reality is when we said under $30 million, it was materially under $30 million to enable us to ensure that gross margin will be compelling as the years roll by. And of course, our ability to drive ecosystem expansion will be the most powerful, we believe in the quantum world, whether that's in the U.S. or our allies. We are -- look, we are cheering for everyone with the SkyWater acquisition, right? So it's really important to note that we already supply our clocks and sensors and QKD switches to a wide breadth of customers. With SkyWater, we are not only going to be supporting their existing customers, but we're going to be investing in SkyWater, which means that with our improved capital base on a combined basis, those customers will see tremendous benefits. And we expect additional customers in the fullness of time to want to be on that acceleration platform. The ability for us to maintain costs as we grow our computer power is almost unparalleled. And the reason for that is the electronic qubit controls that we have of our ion traps on a semiconductor basis and platform. So as we add more qubits, we're not really changing the cost of goods sold much. A little bit, the chips get a little bit bigger and machines get marginally larger, but it's single-digit percent kind of thing, not even double-digit percent, I think, in most instances. And that means with manufacturing volumes, as I said in my prepared remarks, we actually expect the size and the cost from a bill of materials perspective to actually go down over time even as the machine goes from 256 qubits to 100,000 and 1 million and 2 million qubits by 2030. That is obviously a cost curve that everyone is familiar with in the semiconductor industry. And we believe it's vital because it's what enables our ecosystem to prevail in the commercial market. At the same time, it's prevailing, of course, with our nation and allied nations federal customers. In the history of technology, as I said, sometimes you get cases where just economics alone prevail. But in our case, we have the most powerful machines soonest, and we have them at the lowest, most accessible unit economics. And so when you're doing something in a number of cases that were -- they're 5 years ahead technically and you might be 10 or even 100x cheaper, you can see why we are bullish on our ability to be the mass market platform of choice in the fullness of time.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from David Williams with Benchmark.

David Williams

Analyst · Benchmark

Let me also add my congratulations on the really solid results here. So I guess maybe firstly, thinking about your capacity and Inder, you talked earlier about the demand outstripping your ability to supply. If you kind of think about what your capacity is today, maybe on the Tempo solution, what would that look like if you could ship everything that you could build in maybe '26 from a unit perspective?

Inder Singh

Analyst · Benchmark

Yes. I mean, look, we are raising our ability to meet the demand to make sure that we satisfy what the customers are looking for, of course, and we will do that. And it's not always about manufacturing, of course, David, as you know, it's also about having the deployment engineers, the people that go on site, prepare the location, deploy a machine, turn it on, show the customer, et cetera, and then stay with the customer, frankly. So we're investing in all of those. And over the last 6 months, we've invested in, I would say, all of that. As far as like when you go from Tempo in 2026 to the 256 in 2027, the chip road map allows us to then begin leveraging that semiconductor base, which is, frankly, available, fully depreciated, low cost, not so capital intensive. So to the cost question earlier also, you can benefit over time from bringing costs down by leveraging that. So we don't have to necessarily build our own factory. But the Tempo in prior generations, we manufacture them in our factory in Seattle. So we think we have enough capacity right now to be able to meet demand. I did say that demand is exceeding supply, yes, it's true. We might have to be somewhat selective. That's a good problem to have. And so if that continues, we absolutely will surge our ability to deploy, build and ensure that we service the Tempo. But importantly, the question to be asking is, once you have the chip-based system out there, now we have with -- well, SkyWater closing, of course, or even the commercial relationship we already have with SkyWater, the ability to leverage their highly secure in U.S. trusted fab, the ability to make computing solutions that we can sell to national security customers. We can sell to the most discriminating bank in the world. We can sell to any customer that says, "Yes, I know the power quantum." It is both amazingly powerful in a good way, and it could do some really dangerous things, too. Much of the AI can. So we're making sure that we deploy it in a way where it has the level of surety of supply to us so that no geopolitics enters into the ability for us to get components and then have a product that our customers can trust. So I think that it's less about capacity in terms of manufacturing this time next year. But for this year, absolutely. We began investing in the third quarter. We talked about in the third quarter call. And we've hired deployment engineers, and we feel pretty good actually right now.

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Benchmark

Yes. And I'll just add, obviously, that all of those secure trusted fab capabilities and manufacturing scale, we are providing to the entire U.S. industry and all of our allies. So we look forward to working with everyone because I think it's time to put the pedal to metal for the industry.

David Williams

Analyst · Benchmark

Great color. Just one last quick one for me. Just as you kind of think about that fab and the capabilities there today and then looking out beyond '27, maybe, are there major step function potential investments that need to be made in order to hit that road map? Or are things -- do you feel like they have the appropriate maybe abilities today that the investment isn't as big a heavy lift as it might otherwise be?

Inder Singh

Analyst · Benchmark

Well, look, I think that I won't speak for SkyWater, they're independent company, obviously, right? So from our lens, when we look at the capacity that they have in Texas, in Florida and in Minnesota, it's more than what we need actually right now. So I don't see that other than sort of like maybe some tooling and things like that, I don't see where we need to necessarily build the fab capacity as much as ensure that it has the type of, I'll call it, sort of quantum-ready ability to be in a clean room environment, right? So they have clean rooms everywhere. The quantum is like one level higher than that clean room, that's the investment. So it's not like move out on many, many dollars. It's more like ensuring that we provide them what they need, of course. But they have the engineering talent. They have the people that are experienced. They have the ability to do advanced packaging, which is really important. It's not just fab, it's packaging. So we are looking forward to the deal closing, and we're looking forward to leveraging them, of course. And in the meanwhile, we have a commercial relationship, and we hope that we're able to continue providing for the needs of '26 and beyond.

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Benchmark

Yes. So I think just to add on to that, there is plenty of capacity at SkyWater today for the whole U.S. quantum industry. As the U.S. and allied quantum grows, we are confident we will meet that demand at SkyWater. The tooling absolutely is bespoke per program and per customer, but it's typically actually part of the commercial relationship. Speaking from experience, that's usually part of the total conversation you'll have on a multiyear basis. And so that won't come out of IonQ's balance sheet, so much as be part of each customer's commercial agreement. I think the last thing I'll add is probably the biggest investment we're making in the next few years in SkyWater is we're obviously assuming some debt, which we're going to be paying off on transaction close. And I think that will be the largest chunk of it, believe it or not. The rest of it, I think, will be growing with the operations in a fairly modest way.

Inder Singh

Analyst · Benchmark

And their CapEx to revenue, as you probably saw, is like low single digits. They're not very capital intensive, neither we. So I don't think that model changes much, candidly. It might be a surge here or there, but I don't think it's a big shift.

Operator

Operator

And due to time constraints, the last question will be Troy Jensen with Cantor.

Troy Jensen

Analyst

Congrats on the great results. Maybe just a quick one for Niccolo. I get the partnership for applications and software. But what's your thoughts on IonQ controlling the controller specifically? And can you touch on your investment in horizon?

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

So look, we like to think about our ecosystem in the following way. We are the -- an open interoperable stack, but we're students of history, and we want to make sure that we capture value from the hardware to the compiler to the application layer. It's been well known since our IPO that we've been public on the Google, Amazon, Microsoft clouds. And we want to interoperate with everyone because I think it's in the nation's interest and, of course, IonQ shareholder interest to have everyone learn on the IonQ systems and sensing and networking hardware and of course, flourish and build on top of that, right? So we like to work with software partners. We like to work with the so-called hyperscaler partners. We work, of course, with everyone from NVIDIA through to Ansys that does computational engineering is a leader of that in classical and the same in the pharmaceutical space. And so we see this all really as an end, right? We want as much more ease as possible to be interoperable with everyone. And to that extent, we will partner consistently both across our stack and up and down our stack. But we're not handing the keys over to someone else, nor are we trying to be a vertical play where you have to use all of our stuff or none of it works with your stuff, which we think is a limiting approach to life. And there are companies that attempt that. But I think history shows that you want to be open with the right posture and be clear on what you need to maintain control of to make sure that not just your ecosystem works well, but also that it works well and that you continue to be able to accrete long-term value at a pace that grows faster than your cost, of course.

Operator

Operator

This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Niccolo de Masi, Chairman and CEO, for closing remarks.

Niccolo de Masi

Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities

Thank you. In closing 2025, I am confident the year will be remembered as the year IonQ moved beyond the laboratory and into the bedrock of global infrastructure. We didn't just meet our goals, we redefined the ceiling for the entire industry, becoming the first public quantum company to cross the $100 million revenue threshold while tripling our revenue scale year-on-year. And we did this while demonstrating unprecedented technical excellence, demonstrating 99.99% 2 cubic gate fidelity and becoming the first company in history that can proudly say that all of our key technical milestones have been achieved on the path to full fault-tolerant quantum computers. We are no longer just building quantum computers, however, we are supplying the high-precision atomic clocks, secure quantum networks and advanced quantum cybersecurity, hardware and software that will serve as the nervous system for the next era of computing, modeling and sovereign security. And by acquiring SkyWater, we will effectively onshore the future of quantum manufacturing, transforming IonQ into the quantum industry's merchant supplier for the U.S. and our allies in this important geopolitical race. We enter 2026 with a fortified balance sheet and an unmatched intellectual engine of approximately 1,500 professionals, having continued growing strongly even beyond our reported end of year total. Our focus remains clear: to lead the geopolitical space race of quantum for our generation by delivering a unified all-domain quantum platform and to help customers solve the world's most complex problems. The era of quantum utility is not on the horizon, it is here, and IonQ is the one team, one platform primed and poised to win. Thank you for your continued trust in our journey, and we'll see you next time.

Operator

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.