Taiwan Unveils First Homegrown Commercial Chip Supporting Three PQC Standards

The prospect that quantum computers could eventually break widely used public-key encryption has pushed governments and companies to adopt post-quantum cryptography, or PQC. Standards issued by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology are emerging as a foundation for security upgrades across finance, government and critical infrastructure, increasing demand for commercially deployable hardware that can protect cryptographic keys and operations.

Hui Zhi Security Technology and Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute recently unveiled a new-generation WAP cryptographic application processor. The companies said it is Taiwan’s first domestically developed commercial security chip to support all three NIST PQC standards and is among the earliest such products worldwide. Designed for enterprise-grade hardware security modules, or HSMs, the chip has reached mass-production readiness and is already being shipped.