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Quantum Design Bolsters Quantum Tech Portfolio with Qnami Buy

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June 3, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Quantum Design completed its acquisition of Qnami on May 28, expanding the company’s offerings for researchers developing advanced materials. Qnami specializes in diamond-based quantum sensing, utilizing scanning probe microscopy systems to enable nanoscale magnetic imaging and advance fields like spintronics and semiconductor development. “This is a major milestone for Qnami,” said Mathieu Munsch, CEO of Qnami. “By joining forces with Quantum Design, we are accelerating our growth and strengthening our ability to deliver quantum sensing solutions that will drive innovation across both academia and industry.” The move follows Quantum Design’s January acquisition of the NanoScience division of Oxford Instruments, demonstrating a rapid build-out of its quantum technology portfolio.

Quantum Design Acquires Qnami to Expand Quantum Sensing Portfolio

Quantum Design’s recent acquisition of Qnami, finalized on May 28, signals a clear escalation in the company’s commitment to quantum technology; this marks their second acquisition within the field this year. This addition complements Quantum Design’s existing portfolio, broadening their support for scientists investigating quantum materials, spintronics, and nanomagnetism, and extending their reach into industrial applications. The strategic move builds on Quantum Design’s earlier expansion in January with the addition of Oxford Instruments’ NanoScience division, demonstrating a rapid and substantial investment in quantum capabilities. Stuart Schoenmann, CEO of Quantum Design, said the company continues to expand its portfolio of products serving quantum computing, sensing, and information applications, highlighting an aggressive growth strategy.

Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Technology Enables Nanoscale Magnetic Imaging

Quantum Design’s acquisition of Qnami on May 28 significantly bolsters the availability of nanoscale magnetic imaging capabilities, driven by Qnami’s specialization in diamond-based nitrogen-vacancy center technologies. These centers, defects within the diamond lattice, function as exquisitely sensitive quantum sensors, allowing for the visualization of magnetic fields at the nanometer scale, a level of detail crucial for advancements in spintronics and the development of novel materials. The technology extends beyond fundamental research, offering potential for detailed semiconductor characterization and improved understanding of nanomagnetic phenomena. Dirk Haft, CEO of Quantum Design, Europe, explains the combined organization will focus on advancing Qnami’s existing scanning probe microscopy systems and quantum sensing component capabilities, demonstrating a commitment to refining existing tools.

This is a major milestone for Qnami. By joining forces with Quantum Design, we are accelerating our growth and strengthening our ability to deliver cutting-edge quantum sensing solutions that will drive innovation across both academia and industry” says Mathieu Munsch, CEO of Qnami.

Mathieu Munsch, CEO of Qnami
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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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