The below quote from your piece is old news. IonQ acquired Oxford Ionics for their scalable, electronically controlled ion trap technology. Now, for the first time, the great fidelity of ion traps can be scaled out in a semiconductor fab.. no more need for laser gates either. IonQ's coming 256 qubit machines will show the world the power of truly scalable ion traps.
"$IONQ's technology approach is the Trapped Ion method. It's a structure where charged ions are suspended in mid-air and controlled with lasers, and in the current quantum industry, it's evaluated as one of the methods with the highest accuracy. There's a lot of assessment that it has significant strengths even in terms of error rates, which is one of the key industry metrics. However, the downside is that the structure itself is complex, and there's consistent talk about the high physical difficulty in scaling up the number of qubits on a large scale. Ultimately, there's concern that "while the current level of completion is high, there could be limitations in massive scaling.""
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