BTQ Technologies Corporation, the global quantum technology company dedicated to keeping mission-critical networks safe, announced its new strategy of partnering with the renowned applied research organization, the Industrial Technology Research Institute, or ITRI. The move signifies the next major development to accelerate the advancement and development of BTQ’s Quantum Compute In Memory (“QCIM”) Security Chip on Silicon technology.
It is an important milestone in the demonstration of practical silicon-level applicability and efficacy of next generation quantum-resistant technologies.” The project leverages “ITRI’s extensive semiconductor and applied research expertise to help measure the performance, energy, and behavioral characteristics of running QCIM under practical post-quantum cryptographic models.
Accelerating Validation Toward Commercial Deployment
The silicon phase of validation for the BTQ and ITRI is fundamentally valuable for the movement of groundbreaking cryptographic study to the next level of product deployment. The thorough testing of the product at the silicon phase will shield the product to the next stage of integration, where it will play an essential role in product demarcation for the benefit of commerce.
ITRI is recognized globally for its foundational contributions to semiconductor innovation and commercialization. This collaboration builds on a longstanding relationship between BTQ and ITRI, first established in 2022 with shared goals to drive energy-efficient post-quantum technologies.
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Meeting Future Security Needs in the Post-Quantum Era
As quantum computing capabilities advance worldwide, governments and enterprises increasingly seek solutions that protect sensitive infrastructure, secure communications, and financial systems against emerging quantum threats. QCIM’s compute-in-memory architecture brings computation closer to data storage, potentially reducing power use and latency while improving cryptographic throughput a significant advantage compared to conventional chip architectures.
Olivier Roussy Newton, CEO of BTQ Technologies, emphasized the relevance of this silicon validation phase, stating: “Security requirements are rising quickly as governments and enterprises plan for the post-quantum era, but adoption depends on hardware that is practical, efficient, and ready to deploy. This collaboration with ITRI is a meaningful step in moving QCIM from architecture to validated silicon. Early silicon results help de-risk the roadmap and support our commercialization efforts as we work toward quantum secure solutions that can perform in real-world environments.”
Dr. Chih-Cheng Lu, Manager of ITRI’s Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories, added: “ITRI is pleased to expand our collaboration with BTQ to validate next-generation compute and security architectures at the silicon level. As quantum threats accelerate, this program addresses the high computational cost of post-quantum cryptography by evaluating the feasibility, performance, and energy efficiency of PQC workloads using compute-in-memory approaches.”
Complementary Partnerships and Broader Market Readiness
This ITRI silicon initiative complements BTQ’s separate collaboration with ICTK, a South Korea-based leader in hardware security technologies. While the ITRI partnership focuses on early validation and performance benchmarking, the ICTK collaboration targets development of a fully integrated, commercially deployable post-quantum chipset and subsequent real-world deployment readiness.