QuantumDiamonds announced a €152 million investment plan to establish the world’s first production facility for advanced chip testing systems based on quantum sensing. The facility will be located in Munich, Germany, and is intended to support the company’s scale-up from research and proof-of-concept work into global production.
The company said the investment plan is aimed at strengthening Europe’s semiconductor competitiveness as demand for high-performance AI chips increases and yields in advanced packaging decline. QuantumDiamonds’ quantum-based chip-testing approach delivers insights that conventional tools cannot by revealing current paths inside complex 2.5D and 3D packages within seconds, without opening the device.
QuantumDiamonds said it has completed successful proofs of concept with all major chipmakers and has deployments underway across Europe, the United States, and Taiwan. The company said the new investment plan will accelerate its transition from pioneering research to global production. QuantumDiamonds also noted it is hiring to support its expansion.
QuantumDiamonds is a German quantum-sensing startup building advanced chip-testing and failure-analysis systems for semiconductor manufacturers, using diamond-based quantum microscopy to detect and localize faults in integrated circuits and to map electrical current paths inside increasingly complex 2.5D/3D packages and chiplet architectures.
The company has positioned its technology to improve yield and speed debugging as advanced packaging complexity rises, and it has also announced a €152 million investment plan tied to a new Munich site focused on production capacity for its chip-testing systems.
QuantumDiamonds was founded as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, and its co-founders include CEO Kevin Berghoff and CTO Fleming Bruckmaier.
