Quantum Effect Dev
Quantum Effect Devices (QED, originally Quantum Effect Design) was a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1991 by former MIPS Computer Systems managers Tom Riordan, Earl Killian, and Ray Kunita. QED designed MIPS-based 32- and 64-bit embedded RISC microprocessors (the RM5200 and RM7000 families) for networking and communications systems including routers, switches, and optical transport equipment. The company completed an IPO in 2000 and was acquired the same year by PMC-Sierra for approximately $2.3 billion. It has no independent operations, developer platform, or API surface today; the former corporate site (qedinc.com) is defunct. This record was surfaced as a Lightspeed Venture Partners portfolio company and is retained as a historical/no-API-surface entry.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Quantum Effect Dev is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Quantum Effect Dev scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Quantum Effect Dev is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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