Karl Lindström
Karl reports on the chip and hardware layer beneath frontier tech — foundries, packaging, photonics, and the supply chains smaller players depend on.
Articles by Karl Lindström
Quantum Goes Vertical: IonQ's $1.8 Billion SkyWater Deal Puts a U.S. Chip Foundry Inside a Quantum Company
The completed acquisition of the largest exclusively U.S.-based semiconductor foundry marks a new phase in which quantum players are buying — or building — their own hardware supply chains.
Quantum Computing Inc.'s Chip Bet Comes Into Focus: $5.6 Million in Photonics Revenue, Sold at a Loss
QUBT's second-quarter report showed a 91-fold revenue jump built on photonic chips and three semiconductor acquisitions — and a negative gross margin that shows how expensive it is to become a quantum chipmaker.
PsiQuantum's Bet: Skip the Lab, Build the Factory — CHIPS Money and a GlobalFoundries Line Back the Photonic Path
With a $100 million Commerce Department letter of intent, an Omega chipset running on standard silicon processes and new leadership from the semiconductor world, the photonic heavyweight is treating quantum as a manufacturing problem.
The Fidelity Tax: Rigetti's Chiplet Ladder Shows What Superconducting Scale Actually Costs
Two-qubit gate fidelity slides from 99.8% at nine qubits to 99.1% at 108 across the company's own disclosures — the engineering gap standing between a modular architecture and a 1,000-qubit target.