Perspectives

Technical memos
from the partners.

Occasional long-form writing on semiconductor architecture, quantum hardware, and photonic compute — authored by Coexin partners. Not investment advice. Not market commentary. Technical analysis for founders and researchers building at the physical layer.

Dr. Helena Brandt 14 min read

Neutral-Atom Qubits at Scale: What the Fidelity Numbers Actually Mean

As neutral-atom platforms move from 256-qubit to 10,000-qubit arrays, the fidelity conversation changes. This memo unpacks what two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.5% means in practice for fault-tolerant computation — and why the threshold theorem is not a threshold you cross once.

Sarah Lindqvist 11 min read

Reconfigurable Dataflow vs. GPU: Why the Comparison Misses the Point

Every new chip architecture gets benchmarked against NVIDIA's latest GPU and found wanting. That's the wrong frame. Reconfigurable dataflow architectures are solving a different problem — one that becomes more pronounced as model sizes scale past 1 trillion parameters.

Akira Tanaka 9 min read

The Foundry Question: Why Semiconductor Startups Can't Avoid Yield Math

Every semiconductor startup has a fab strategy. Most founders understand their device architecture better than their yield model. This memo explains why that asymmetry matters to investors — and how Coexin evaluates process risk in early-stage diligence.

Akira Tanaka 10 min read

What Wafer-Scale Integration Gets Right About Memory Bandwidth

The memory wall is not a software problem. This memo revisits why wafer-scale integration addresses a fundamental physical constraint that chiplet-based designs cannot fully solve — and what it costs to do so.

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