IonQ is looking to replicate Nvidia's success in the field of quantum computing.

Nvidia ( NVDA 1.65% ) is the undisputed king of semiconductor chips, especially for artificial intelligence (AI) use, but that wasn't always the case. The company started out by developing chips to speed up graphics rendering in video games. However, it later realized that its graphics processing units (GPUs) could be used for tasks outside of this market. As such, it created a software platform called CUDA that allowed developers to program GPUs for other tasks. While many didn't know it at the time, this completely changed Nvidia's future.

To speed up the adoption of CUDA, Nvidia decided to give the software program away for free and pushed it into research labs and universities. This turned o

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