Tropic Square, a fabless semiconductor company, announced the official launch and general availability of its first-generation secure element, TROPIC01.
TROPIC01 is the industry’s first open-architecture hardware security element. The chip is auditable and designed to meet growing demand for transparency in hardware security. This tamper-proof solution offers a secure alternative to existing closed architecture chips, making it suitable for the needs of IoT devices, crypto hardware wallets, digital identity devices, and hardware authenticators.
“TROPIC01 provides the disruption that traditional hardware security needs,” said
John Sirianni, CEO of Tropic Square. “It’s the industry’s first auditable, open-source
solution – transparency to this degree has been unheard of to date. With the evolving sophistication and frequency of cyber threats and increasing regulatory demands, transparency is no longer optional—it’s essential. TROPIC01 provides the
semiconductor innovation that the market is demanding.”
Offering advanced security against side-channel, laser, and other advanced attacks,
TROPIC01 has been developed with fully verifiable cryptographic implementations,
giving enterprises and developers unprecedented control over their security
infrastructure.
“We are excited to launch the industry’s first truly open and auditable secure element chips,” added Jan Pleskac, CTO and Co-Founder of Tropic Square. “Existing
closed-source secure elements don’t allow for auditing; hence engineers and security experts cannot confirm whether vulnerabilities or backdoors exist. TROPIC01, on the other hand, allows engineers to verify the security implementation for themselves, giving them confidence in what they are embedding into their devices.”
TROPIC01’s open architecture enables electronic manufacturers and designers to verify the security implementation and claims. This provides engineers more control of their design process without being restricted by NDAs or the limitations of traditional black box secure elements.
“This chip is exactly what the security industry needs,” said Miro Sveltik, CEO of
ContentWise, a Deep Tech design house currently prototyping with TROPIC01.
“Security is critical for our customers. We cannot truly stand behind solutions we offer to the market unless we can verify its security implementation.”
TROPIC01 supports use cases such as secure boot, firmware updates, and key
management– key security features that enable product readiness for compliance
with regulations such as the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
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