Quantum Brilliance has begun delivery of its diamond-based room-temperature quantum processors, including upcoming deployments to Fraunhofer IAF and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Concurrently, the company is working with European research institute imec to explore integration of diamond into standard semiconductor fabrication processes. This effort supports the long-term goal of embedding quantum processors within conventional compute architectures, such as CPU or GPU boards.
Built on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center qubits in diamond, Quantum Brilliance’s technology enables operation without cryogenics, targeting use cases such as mobile quantum computing and co-packaged sensing. As part of an €18 million chip development project and a €35 million initiative for portable quantum hardware in Germany, the company is designing systems with 25–100 qubits for deployment in compact form factors. These non-fault-tolerant systems fall into the NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) regime, with applications including AI inference and molecular modeling.
Work with imec is focused on adapting diamond to CMOS-compatible fabrication, including lithography, metallization, and handling processes. If full CMOS compatibility proves infeasible, photonic production platforms—such as imec’s 12-inch fab in Málaga, Spain—are under consideration. Integration of sensing capabilities is also under evaluation, with potential applications in defense and scientific instrumentation.
The company’s latest generation hybrid system, QB-QDK2.0, combines its QPU with classical co-processors (including NVIDIA GPUs) in a single box. This architecture supports hybrid quantum-classical algorithm development and is currently being tested by partners such as Fraunhofer IAF. Oak Ridge will deploy three systems to investigate parallelism in quantum workloads such as molecular simulations. In parallel, Quantum Brilliance has established a new office in Tokyo to build a commercial presence in Japan.
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June 6, 2025
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