Best of the week — the five most popular stories among readers, November 3 – November 7, 2025

What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Quantum Brilliance opens Melbourne synthetic diamond foundry Australian-German company Quantum Brilliance has opened a new facility at Melbourne’s Notting Hill, where it will make lab-grown diamonds for quantum computing devices. According to a statement on Wednesday from state economic growth…

Quantum Brilliance opens Melbourne synthetic diamond foundry

Australian-German company Quantum Brilliance has opened a new facility at Melbourne’s Notting Hill, where it will make lab-grown diamonds for quantum computing devices.  According to a statement on Wednesday from state economic growth minister Danny Pearson, who opened the foundry, the new facility at Co-Labs will see world-leading technology developed to enable portable quantum devices…

Quantum Brilliance processors installed at Oak Ridge facility in “the first big steps” towards quantum computing for scientific discovery

Australian/German business Quantum Brilliance has had three of its quantum processor units installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) first on-site, commercial quantum computer cluster. QB bills itself a world leader in mass-deployable, room temperature diamond-based quantum technology. According to a statement from the company on Wednesday, the new deployment at the US Department of…

Pawsey and Quantum Brilliance create hybrid workflow accelerated by NVIDIA

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre and Quantum Brilliance announced a significant breakthrough in quantum computing integration on Monday, developing a tightly integrated hybrid workflow that combines GPU, CPU and quantum processing capabilities. Led by Dr Pascal Elahi and the Pawsey quantum team, the new system provides a practical path toward incorporating quantum computing into real-world applications,…

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Optiscan Imaging advances veterinary medtech Confocal microscopy manufacturer Optiscan Imaging has signed a Collaborative Research Agreement with the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. The agreement follows a MOU with the university, and is a step in expanding the clinical applications of Optiscan’s confocal endomicroscope imaging system in veterinary medicine. The initial focus of…

Quantum Brilliance to build mobile quantum computer

Germany’s Cyber Agency has awarded Australian company Quantum Brilliance and Germany’s ParityQC one of three contracts valued at €35 million aimed at developing the world’s first mobile quantum computer by 2027. The companies announced they have jointly been awarded a contract by Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH ‘Innovation in Cybersecurity’ to develop the…

Collaboration to integrate quantum and high performance computing

Room-temperature quantum computing manufacturer Quantum Brilliance has announced a collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to build a joint platform integrating quantum computing with high-performance computing (HPC). The collaboration will focus on integrating an on-premises cluster of QB’s quantum accelerators with ORNL’s HPC systems to explore the performance and effectiveness of parallelised and hybridised…

Victoria boosts innovation infrastructure with new grants

Ten Victorian manufacturers will boost their innovative capabilities through new grants announced under the state’s $15 million Made in Victoria – Industry R&D Infrastructure Fund. The Minister for Jobs and Industry Natalie Hutchins announced the grants, highlighting support for medical technology developer PolyNovo. The Port Melbourne company designs, develops and manufactures skin regeneration products to…