Quantum Diamonds Expands to Asia With New Operation in Taiwan
Insider Brief
- QuantumDiamonds GmbH appointed Peter Lemmens as Managing Director Asia as part of a broader expansion into key semiconductor markets, including a new regional hub in Taiwan.
- The move supports the company’s push to scale commercialization of its quantum-based chip inspection technology across Asia, where leading semiconductor manufacturers are concentrated.
- Lemmens brings more than 25 years of industry experience, including leadership roles at IMS Nanofabrication and imec, with established ties to major chipmakers such as TSMC and Samsung Electronics.
- Photo by Timo Volz on Unsplash
PRESS RELEASE — QuantumDiamonds GmbH, a Munich-based quantum sensing company redefining semiconductor quality control, today announced the appointment of Peter Lemmens as Managing Director Asia.
The hire accelerates the company’s commercial expansion across the world’s most advanced chip manufacturing markets and signals QuantumDiamonds’ commitment to establishing a lasting, on-the-ground presence in the region.
The appointment coincides with QuantumDiamonds’ expansion into Asia through the establishment of a new operation in Taiwan, which will serve as the company’s regional hub as the company scales commercial and technical activities across the semiconductor ecosystem in the months ahead.
QuantumDiamonds, founded in Munich, Germany, announced in November 2025 a €152 Million Investment in a next-gen quantum-based chip inspection facility in the Bavarian capital. The next move focuses on building an operational base for QuantumDiamonds in Asia, beginning with Taiwan.
Peter Lemmens brings more than 25 years of executive leadership in the semiconductor and electronics industry, including over 15 years based in Taiwan.
He has a proven record of building and scaling organizations that serve the world’s most advanced chipmakers. Most recently, Peter served as General Manager Taiwan at IMS Nanofabrication, the global leader in multi-beam electron mask writing systems for leading-edge technology nodes, where he built the Taiwan operation from the ground up into a team of more than 100 employees, with full P&L responsibility and direct collaboration with TSMC.
Before IMS, he spent a decade as General Manager Taiwan at imec, the world’s foremost semiconductor R&D hub. There, he founded imec’s first technology center outside Europe and grew it into a 75-person, multi-country organization spanning R&D, business development, and account management. Peter began his career with a 12-year stint at global electronics powerhouse Phillips.
His network spans the highest levels of the semiconductor ecosystems in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, including TSMC, Samsung, ASE, UMC, and leading global IDMs, making him uniquely positioned to drive the adoption of QuantumDiamonds’ technology at scale.
“The semiconductor industry is navigating an inflection point,” said Kevin Berghoff, CEO of QuantumDiamonds. “As device architectures grow more complex through 3D stacking, advanced packaging, and backside power delivery, the demand for non-destructive, high-resolution metrology solutions has never been greater. Peter has spent his career at the center of this ecosystem. His operational depth, industry credibility, and track record of building profitable businesses from the ground up make him exactly the right leader to accelerate our growth across Asia.”
QuantumDiamonds has commercialized the world’s first integrated quantum sensing system for semiconductor failure analysis. Based on patented Quantum Diamonds Microscopy (QDM) technology, the platform delivers non-destructive, high-resolution 3D imaging of current pathways in advanced chip architectures, including 2.5D and 3D packages, backside power networks, and wide bandgap materials such as GaN and SiC.
Where conventional optical methods require destructive layer-by-layer analysis, QDM can localize faults in minutes, dramatically compressing failure analysis cycles and improving manufacturing yield.
“Open faults are the number one yield killer in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, and the industry has lacked an effective, non-destructive solution—until now,” said Peter Lemmens. “QuantumDiamonds has built something genuinely transformative. The ability to visualize electrical activity in three dimensions, without destroying the sample, is a step change in what failure analysis engineers can do. I look forward to working closely with customers and partners across Asia to bring this capability into their production environments.”
Nine of the world’s top ten semiconductor manufacturers are already engaged with QuantumDiamonds, with active customer interest across Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. QuantumDiamonds announced in March 2026 its first deployments across commercial environments in the US and Taiwan.
The appointment of Peter Lemmens marks a pivotal step in QuantumDiamonds’ evolution from a European deep-tech startup into a global metrology platform company, reinforcing its ambition to become an indispensable partner to the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers.