BTQ Technologies and ITRI Partner to Validate QCIM Quantum Secure Chip in Silicon

Executive Summary

• BTQ Technologies and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) announced a strategic collaboration to validate BTQ’s Quantum Compute In Memory (QCIM) security chip in silicon.
• The partnership moves QCIM into an early‑silicon validation stage, providing performance, power‑efficiency benchmarks that de‑risk the roadmap toward commercialization.
• The effort complements BTQ’s existing collaboration with ICTK on a fully integrated post‑quantum chipset, accelerating BTQ’s end‑to‑end quantum‑secure hardware strategy.

Key Details

• Collaboration Scope: Joint development and testing of QCIM chip at silicon level; ITRI will evaluate feasibility, performance, and energy efficiency.
• Milestone: Advances QCIM program from architecture to early silicon validation – a key step toward commercial deployment.
• Benchmark Goals: Generate silicon‑level metrics (speed, power use) to guide product development, integration decisions, and commercial discussions.
• Commercial Pathway: Validation results will de‑risk architectural choices, accelerate engineering timelines, and support future quantum‑secure platform rollouts for critical infrastructure, finance, communications, and edge computing.
• Complementary Efforts: Builds on BTQ’s separate partnership with ICTK (South Korea) focused on a complete post‑quantum chipset ready for volume production.
• Quotes:
• “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,” – Olivier Roussy Newton, CEO & Chairman, BTQ Technologies.
• “ITRI is pleased to expand our collaboration with BTQ to validate next‑generation compute and security architectures at the silicon level,” – Dr. Chih‑Cheng Lu, Manager, ITRI Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories.

Notable Quotes

• Olivier Roussy Newton (CEO, BTQ): “Security requirements are rising quickly as governments and enterprises plan for the post‑quantum era… this collaboration is a meaningful step in moving QCIM from architecture to validated silicon.”
• Dr. Chih‑Cheng Lu (ITRI): “As quantum threats accelerate, this program addresses the high computational cost of post‑quantum cryptography by evaluating feasibility, performance, and energy efficiency using compute‑in‑memory approaches.”