These impressive capabilities hold the promise of outsize returns for investors in quantum computing stocks.

Gartner expects that by 2030, an exhaustion of viable commercial revenue will force over 50% of quantum computing start-ups out of business."

I predict IonQ (IONQ -5.30%) will be one pure-play quantum computing enterprise to remain standing in 2030.

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Advancing quantum computer technology is expensive, not to mention the cost of its multiple acquisitions.