{"id":91070,"date":"2019-05-21T11:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/amazon-prime-boss-named-ceo-of-google-backed-quantum-computing-startup"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:42:32","slug":"amazon-prime-boss-named-ceo-of-google-backed-quantum-computing-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/amazon-prime-boss-named-ceo-of-google-backed-quantum-computing-startup","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime Boss Named CEO of Google-Backed Quantum Computing Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-prime-boss-named-ceo-of-google-backed-quantum-computing-startup2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are about half a dozen other technological approaches to quantum computing vying for preeminence these days. The ion trap method differs from the most popular approach\u2014the silicon chip-based \u201csuperconducting qubit\u201d\u2014preferred by the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/fortune500\/ibm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBM<\/a>, Google, Intel, and other tech giants. Honeywell, the industrial conglomerate, is one of the few companies pursuing the ion trap approach along with IonQ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuantum computers can potentially solve many of the problems we have today,\u201d Chapman told <em>Fortune<\/em> on a call. He listed off potential areas of impact, such as drug discovery, energy, logistics, materials science, and A.I. techniques. \u201cHow would you not want to be part of that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a once-in-a-generation type opportunity,\u201d said Andrew Schoen, a principal at New Enterprise Associates, IonQ\u2019s first backer. \u201cWe view this as a chance to build the next <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/fortune500\/intel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intel<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amp.timeinc.net\/fortune\/2019\/05\/21\/amazon-prime-google-quantum-computing-startup-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are about half a dozen other technological approaches to quantum computing vying for preeminence these days. The ion trap method differs from the most popular approach\u2014the silicon chip-based \u201csuperconducting qubit\u201d\u2014preferred by the likes of IBM, Google, Intel, and other tech giants. Honeywell, the industrial conglomerate, is one of the few companies pursuing the ion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}