Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the CLSQ Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference call contains forward-looking statements. Such statements involve certain known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which could cause actual results, financial condition, performance, or achievements of CLSQ to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. CLSQ is providing this communication as of this date and does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements contained herein as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. These risks are also discussed in our filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Please be advised our fiscal year 2025 earnings release was issued on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Also, our Form 10-K for the full year ended December 31, 2025, which was filed with the SEC on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, can be found by visiting the Investors section of CLSQ website at https colon slash slash investors dot CLSQ dot com slash. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone could require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to introduce Carlos Morera, founder and chief executive officer of CLSQ. Mr. Morera, please go ahead.
Thank you very much, Kevin, and good morning in the United States and good afternoon in Europe to everybody. Welcome to a full year 2025 earnings call. I am joined today by our Chief Financial Officer, John O'Hara. I'll begin with an overview of our key highlights and major developments from the year. John will then walk you through the financial results in more detail. After that, I'll return to share our outlook for 2026 and beyond, and we'll conclude by opening the line for your questions. 2025 was a defining year for CLSQ. It was a year where we stepped decisively into the role we had been building towards science or founding, that of the world-leading platform for post-quantum secure semiconductor and trusted digital infrastructure. Every investment, product launch, and partnership this year advances one central thesis that the quantum threat to encryption is real, it is accelerating, and how we are rooted post-quantum security is the only durable answer. Let me walk you through those accomplishments one by one. In October 2025, CLSQ market valuation surpassed $1 billion, and we achieved an upgrade to the NASDAQ global select market, its highest tier. This reflects our growing scale institutional governance standards and investors' recognition and our positioning at the interception of semiconductor cybersecurity and quantum resilience. Since November 2024, we have raised more than $530 million in capital, providing us with a substantial financial flexibility to accelerate our growth strategy and deepen our investment in innovation. This funding strengthens our balance sheet and enables us to scale product development, expand our commercial reach, and support the industrialization of our next-generation secure semiconductor platform. It also positioned us to advance key strategic initiatives, including post-quantum product development, certification programs, and potential partnerships or acquisitions that we can enhance or technology capabilities and market presence. I will provide more detailed colors shortly on our use of capital and how we are allocating these resources to drive long-term value creation. I will start with our QS7001, the world first post-quantum semiconductor. The most consequential milestone of 2025 was the commercial launch of the Quantum Shield QS7001 in Q4. This is the most first commercial available secure semiconductor you're embedding NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography algorithms, such as ML, MLA, KEM, and MLA-DSA, directly in hardware, delivering up to 10 times higher performance than PQC software implementation. We unveiled the QS7001 at the IQT Quantum and AI Conference in New York in October, and formally launched development kits at Las Vegas Grand Prix in November. The pipeline on QS701 and QVOL TPM has already grown to over $60 million for 2026 to 2029, up from approximately $11.4 million at the same point last year. I will now discuss the CLSQ made in U.S. strategy and resident development. The U.S. government and enterprise market increasingly requires root of trust, PKI infrastructure, and cryptographic provisioning on American soil driven by national security imperative and regulatory mandates. In November 2025, we launched a sovereign U.S. post-quantum root of trust, the first of its kind, marking a foundational milestone in or made in U.S. strategy. This initiative ensures that the entire trust chain from silicon design to cryptographic provisioning can be executed within the United States under the highest level of certification and control. To operationalize this vision, we engage Trusted Semiconductor Solution, TSS, as our U.S. manufacturing and distribution partner and establishing a U.S.-based secure personalization hub in 2026, reinforcing supply chain, sovereignty, and resilience. This strategy is further strengthened through key partnerships. Collaboration with Lattice Semiconductor enables the integration of low-power FPGA technologies, supporting flexible, secure, and post-quantum-ready hardware architectures for defense, IoT, and HAI applications. At the same time, engagement with PyroDron extends secure route of trust capability into autonomous and defense-grade UAV system, where cyber-resilient and trusted communications are mission-critical. Trusted Semiconductor Solution, TSS, a Category 1A trusted accredited company meeting the highest standard for handling classified emission-critical macroelectronics, has announced a strategic partnership to co-developed made-in-U.S. PQC-enabled secure semiconductor solution. These solutions are designed to reach the highest level of hardware certification required by U.S. defense and government agencies. Leveraging TSS, established relationship and trusted position within the U.S. defense ecosystem, this collaboration has strengthened CLSQ footprint and accelerate access to sensitive national security market. TSS serves as a critical interface to U.S. agencies, insurance compliance with the Department of Defense, DOD, and federal requirements while enabling the development of CLSQ quantum-resistant silicon, question-chip design, advanced certification, and secure personalization technologies. EEROC represents the quantum computer layer of this long-term vision. Its electron-on-elion approach enables quantum processor as small as a thumbnail and compatible with the standard semiconductor manufacturing processes. This breakthrough aligns directly with the objectives of building an end-to-end server and quantum security stack, bringing to date post-quantum cryptography chips with tomorrow quantum processors. The follow-on investment in February 2026 reflects a strong conviction in this trajectory and reinforces the strategic position and the intersection of semiconductor cybersecurity and quantum computing. By combining U.S.-based manufacturing and personalization through TSS programmable secure hardware via lattice semiconductor, trusted autonomous system with pyro drone, and future quantum capabilities enabled by EEROC, we are establishing a vertical integrated sovereign and quantum resilient security ecosystem tailored to the most demanding requirements of U.S. defense, critical infrastructure, and next-generation AI system. Our total active pipeline across all products stands to an estimate $200 million in March 2026. We published a certification roadmap confirming all the products variant, which are QS701V1, QS701V2, QVOLT TPN183, and QVOLT TPN185, which are on track for CCEAL4. 5 plus FIPS FIPS 140 slot 3 and TCG certification through Q4 2026. While our customers are actively testing development kits and progressing through the design in progress, signaling strong engagement and readiness for adaptation, we see that gating factors for conversion to revenue are two-folds. First is the certification completion, or CCEAL 5 and FIPS 143 milestones remain on track through Q4 2026, and customers in regulated sectors typically require these certifications before committing to volume purchases. As already mentioned, the laboratory has confirmed that the common criteria evaluation required to achieve evaluation assurance level EAL 5+, namely fault injection and side channel attacks, pass its March certification as anticipated. Second, integration cycles in the semiconductor industry, the pass from design into full production, usually spans 6 to 18 months. We are actively accelerating this timeline through co-development partnerships and close collaboration with customers, shortening the time from prototyping to deployment. Critically, regulatory pressures such as the CNSA 2.0 in the United States and the European Union Cyber Resilient Act are creating tangible urgency. These deadlines are not theoretically. They are influencing procurement decisions today. And we are seeing this urgency directly reflected in commercial conversations, driven faster designing and a strong early adoption. This combination of mature pipeline, accelerated integration, and regulatory-driven demand position as well for meaningful near-term revenue growth while laying the foundation for continued expansion through 2028. Now, moving to acquisitions. In 2025, we completed the acquisition of ICALP, SIS, SU, a leading ASIC design specialized company based in Grenoble and Toulouse in France. This added approximately 100 high-skilled engineers, bringing our global workforce to approximately 300 people. IC Alps bring expertise in custom chip design for healthcare, automobile, and IoT, and position hosts to develop the QASIC, which is the Quantum ASIC, a purpose-built post-quantum cryptographic ASIC. ASIC revenues also grew from $1.4 million in Q3 to $2.2 million in Q4, confirming the value of this acquisition. Additionally, last month, we signed a letter of intent to acquire 100% on MiraX, a Swiss developer or photonics-based quantum interconnected solution. MiraX represents a three-strategic asset in completing our quantum vertical stack. Its technology provides a critical interconnect layer linking quantum computing networking and post-quantum cryptography into a unified architecture. Once completed, the acquisition is expected to accelerate our QSOC initiative and strengthen our ability to deliver resilient end-to-end quantum secure infrastructure across both terrestrial and space-based environments. Another key milestone in the establishment of our quantum fund and a strategic investment made through it. Our quantum fund launched in 2025 with a $20 million initial allocation, has grown now to $200 million as today. We deploy approximately $30 million across IC Alps, Colibri TD, EROG, YSAT, Quantix, Edge Security, and the WICAN group, each reinforcing our quantum vertical from silicon to space. On November 2025, investment in EROC, Deepin with a follow-on in February 2025, is particularly strategic. EROC is building a quantum processor based on single electron on superfluid helium, a design approach that yields processors as small as a thumbnail manufactured on standard semiconductor processes. This underlines our made-in-U.S. vision and our long-term route-to-cubit ecosystem. The U.S. government and enterprise market increasingly requires route-of-trust, PKI infrastructure, and cryptographic provision on American soil. In November 2025, we launched a sovereign U.S.-based post-quantum route-of-trust, the first of its kind. We engage Strauss Semiconductor Solution as U.S. manufacturing and distribution partner, and we are building a U.S. personalization hub in 2026. EROX is the quantum computer layer of this vision. Their electron-on-elion approach allows processor as small as a thumbnail to be manufactured on standard semiconductor processes, directly aligned with a long-term goal of an end-to-end server and quantum security stack from post-quantum chips today to quantum processors in the future. The follow-on investment in February 2026 reflects our conviction in this direction. All these advances tie well with our quantum highway global expansion strategy. We advance our quantum highway, linking industrial capabilities around several locations like Murcia, Toulouse, Grenoble, Geneva, and Chicago connecting Spain, France, and the United States and Switzerland. In September 2025, we signed a 40 million euro joint venture with the Spanish government to establish quantum age security in a city located in the southern part of Spain, Murcia, Spain's first post-quantum semiconductor personalization center. We are establishing two additional hubs in the U.S. and in Asia in 2026. In November 2025, we launched a sovereign U.S.-based post-quantum route of trust, enabling U.S. government agencies to manage quantum-secure digital identities entering in U.S. soil. In November 2025, CLSQ invested $10 million in YSAT to develop a quantum-secure satellite infrastructure platform. They contemplated model is based on an anticipated revocable right of use over 12 satellites. YSAT will remain ownership of the operation, while CLSQ will secure dedicated capacity for quantum spatial orbit cloud initiative, delivering quantum key distribution, quantum random number generation, and post-quantum identity services as a subscription offering to enterprises and government. The YSAT 3.0 launch in June 2025 already included a proof of concept for CL coin, machine-to-machine transaction, secure biosemiconductor stack. While there cannot be no assurance that the contemplated arrangement will be completed on currently anticipated terms, we believe this represents a significant long-term opportunity as the world's first quantum secure orbital cloud. I am turning now the call to John, who will discuss financial
results for the year 2025. Go ahead, John. Thank you, Carlos, and hello to everybody on the call. So, CLSQ delivered total revenue of $18.3 million in fiscal year 2025, representing growth of 66% compared to $11 million in 2024. This was driven by two factors. First, a strong recovery in our core semiconductor segment which grew to 14.7 million from 11 million in the prior year and second the addition of our new ASIC segment which contributed 3.6 million following our acquisition of IC Alps in August 2025 representing five months of consolidated revenue. Within the semiconductor segment we saw particular strength in our smart card reader SCR200 product line which delivered 51 percent revenue growth year on year driven by expanded deployments at key customers. Our secure element product lines, notably the VIC-405 and VIC-408, also saw significant band growth in smart metering and secure communications applications. Trust services, which include our PKI and provisioning solutions, grew by almost 600% year-on-year, though from a small base and currently represent just 2% of total revenue. Geographically, North America remains our largest market at 57% of revenue. We are pleased to report strong momentum, in particular in Asia-Pacific, where revenue grew 95% year-on-year, driven by adoption of the MATA protocol in smart home and HVAC applications. We also recognized some small revenues relating to sampling of the QS7001 quantum-resistant chip as clients commenced their first testing of this product, and we expect first production revenues from the QS7001 in the second half of 2026. Gross profit improved substantially to 8.6 million in 2025, up from 3.7 million in the prior year, with gross margin expanding 13 percentage points to 47%. This was primarily driven by the addition of the ASIC segment, which carried significantly higher margins at 88%, reflecting the design service nature of that business with low directly attributable costs. Semiconductor segment gross margin partially recovered to 37%, up from 34% in 2024, as shipments of new products to our existing customer base resumed following a period where customers were drawing down their own inventory. Total operating expenses were $48.4 million in 2025, compared to $20.9 million in 2024, an increase of 132%. However, I want to be clear about what is driving this increase, as context matters significantly here. The single largest factor is a non-cash stock-based compensation charge of 11.2 million. Following the significant change in CLSQ's market capitalisation since our original listing, management made the deliberate decision alongside the compensation committee to issue equity awards to our staff and senior staff as recognition of their commitment and to align their interests with our shareholders. This is a one-time accounting charge with no cash impact. Beyond that, the increase in operating expenses reflects three structural changes in our business. The consolidation of five months of IC operating expenses following the August acquisition, the build out of our own management team with C-suite and central functions that were previously provided by our parent WISEKE, now directly employed by CLSQ from January 2025, and continued investment in research and development and sales and marketing to support our post-quantum product roadmap. Net of stock-based compensation, in particular R&D expenditure was 10.1 million, representing 25% of our total operating expenses and reflecting the investment required to bring our Quasar post-quantum product program to commercial launch. The net loss for the year was $34.2 million compared to $21.2 million in 2024, and a meaningful offset to our operating loss came from the non-operating income of $8.9 million, the majority of which, $6.1 million, was interest income earned in our substantial cash balance throughout the year. Turning to the balance sheet and liquidity, we ended the year with cash and cash equivalents of 417.7 million, with short-term investments of 10 million on top of that, which was up from 84.6 million at the end of 2024. Working capital was positive at 421 million. This cash position is a result of highly successful equity capital markets activity throughout 2025, and in aggregate, since November 2024 until the current date, CLSQ has raised over $575 million in cash for a series of registered direct offerings, warrant exercises, and our at-the-market facility. This puts us in a genuinely strong position to execute in our strategy in the years ahead, and Carlos will come back to that later in the course. Operating cash outflow for the year was $31.3 million, reflecting our continued investment phase. Investing activities consumed $35.3 million, primarily comprising our acquisitions and strategic investments, including the acquisition of IC Alps, our investments in IROC, YSAT, the WECAN Group, and Qantas Execurity in Spain. Total debt of the year was a modest £1.7 million, all of which relates to French government-supported loans acquired with IC Alps. The balance sheet is therefore essentially debt-free at the parent company level. Based on our cash projections through to March 2027, we have confirmed sufficient liquidity to fund operations, and the business is not dependent upon further capital raises for its immediate operational continuity. Moving on to our balance sheet, total assets grew to over 500 million at the end of 2024, at the end of 2025, principally reflecting the increase in cash. Non-current assets grew from 4.5 million to 54.5 million, which was driven by the IC Alps acquisition, which added 5.7 million of goodwill and $21 million of intangible assets net of amortization, as well as our strategic investment portfolio. On the other hand, total liabilities were $42.7 million at the year end and the cumulative deficits at $76 million, up from $41.9 million the prior year, reflecting the net loss for the period. Looking to 2026, there are a number of important milestones we are targeting. On revenue, we expect fiscal 26 to represent a year of acceleration. The ASIC segment will contribute a full 12 months of IC Alps revenue for the first time. We anticipate the first production revenues from the QS7001 and the QVOLT TPM in the second half of 2026. The estimated combined pipeline for these two products is at 60 million as of December 31st, 2025, and as of today, and that's across approximately 115 potential customers. Just for clarity, this is a management estimate and is subject to convert conversion risk, customer validation, timelines, and the certification process. R&D expenditure is expected to continue to increase in 2026, with a particular focus on our post-quantum cryptography roadmap and the build-out of our test and personalization infrastructure in Spain and prospectively in the United States and Asia. Finally, we expect to continue executing on our strategic investment program. The quantum fund has a total allocation of 200 million, of which we have spent just over 30 million to date. We will continue to evaluate opportunities in quantum computing, quantum as a service, and secure semiconductor technologies aligned with our roadmap. We have 530 million in cash generating meaningful interest income, and we are investing from a position of strength. The path to profitability we believe runs through revenue scaling with a $200 million pipeline for 2026 to 2029. Revenue expected to grow by between 50% and 100% in 2026. Q1 expected to more than double year on year and gross margins firmly trending upward. We are confident in that trajectory. Now I am turning the call back to Carlos who will provide additional details on our growth strategy. Carlos, please go ahead.
Thank you, John. So let me start with two milestones then. we believe will define our 2026 product calendar. So first is the full scale commercial deployment of the QVOL TPM or RISC-V based semiconductor controller, which marks CLSQ formal entry into the trusted platform module market and is expected to drive significant new revenue in H2 2026 as indicated by John. Second, we anticipate a custom post-quantum ASIC engagement with contractualization in H2-2026, reflecting ICALP's contribution to the QASIC initiative. Furthermore, our $200 million pipeline, which spans from 2026 to 2029, and the near-term portion, particularly the QS7001 and QVOLT TPM program, is at the most advanced stage, with customers actively running development kits and moving through design in processes. This is a traditional practice in this industry where the testing kits are used and completed before further acquisition of the product. The key conversion factors are, first, certification completion, or CCEL5 plus the FIPS 143 mileage stems, are on track through Q4 2026, and regulated sector customers require this before committing to volume. Second, integration cycles in semiconductor design to production typically run 6 to 18 months. We are actively compressing this through co-development partnerships. CNSA 2.0 and EU CRA deadlines are creating a genuine urgency we see directly in our commercial conversation. This to be completed with the announcement yesterday on Google of the acceleration of the quantum day and quantum thread on cryptography and cryptographic tokens, which will also create an urgency aspect in the market and the consumer application of this technology. Let me now discuss regulatory tailwinds, hard deadlines set for 2026. The regulatory environment is no longer a distant tailwind. It's creating binding new terms demand that is actively shaping customer purchasing decision. By September 2020, the EU Cyber Resilient Act mandates security lifecycle documentation for all products with digital elements sold in the European Union. Noncompliant risk incurring fines up to $15 million or 2.5% of the global turnover. This is driven urgency among manufacturers and OEMs to reassess the security architecture and ensure long-term compliance. In parallel in the U.S., the NSA CNSA 2.0 requires traditional networking equipment to prefer post-quantum algorithms by 2026. This effectively accelerates the replacement cycle for a wide range of infrastructure-embedded systems. Importantly, these are not long-dated policy signals. They are active and forcible deadlines. As a result, we are seeing a clear shift from evaluation to execution in customer engagements. Against this backdrop, CLSQ's unique position, CLSQ is one of the very few companies in the world with certified hardware-native solution ready today. This gives us a meaningful first-move advantage as customers move quickly to secure compliance, future-proof solutions. So now moving on the global infrastructure expansion. In 2026, we plan to commence the establishment of two additional custom-designed text and personalization hubs, one in the United States and one in Asia, complementing the Murcia-Spain center and significantly expanding our global footprint. These hubs will not only enhance our operational resilient and proximity to key market, but also will create a distributed sovereign-ready infrastructure aligned with evolving geopolitical and cybersecurity requirements. At the same time, we will accelerate the development of the CL Quantum Spatial Orbit Cloud, a strategic initiative that reflects a fundamental shift in how digital infrastructure must evolve in the quantum area. As a complement, only yesterday we launched the new satellite, which is a YSAT-3U, already with a post-quantum chip embedded, which is the beginning of this infrastructure. The convergence of quantum technology in a space-based infrastructure is no longer optional. It's becoming essential. First, security at the quantum level requires a new infrastructure layer. Terrestrial networks are increasingly vulnerable in a post-quantum world. Space-based systems enable quantum key distribution, QQD, and ultra-secure communications beyond the reach of conventional cyber attacks, ensuring that data sovereignty is guaranteed and resilient for government and enterprises. Second, latency, coverage, and independence are critical. A space-based quantum cloud allows computations, secure data exchange, and AI processing to occur close to the edge, anywhere on Earth, without reliance on fragmented terrestrial infrastructure. This is particularly important for critical sectors such as defense, finance, energy, and smart infrastructure. Third, data sovereignty and geopolitical fragmentation are reshaping the cloud landscape. Nations and regions increasingly require trusted independent infrastructure. So Orbital Quantum Cloud platforms provide a neutral, sovereign, and tamper-resistant layer, enabling countries and organizations to operate securely across borders without compromising control over the data. Fourth, scalability on quantum services depend on cloud delivery. Just as a classical cloud computing democratized access to computing power, quantum clouds will be the gateway to quantum capabilities. Integrating these services with satellite infrastructure ensures global accessibility, including in regions where terrestrial connectivity is limited or insecure. Finally, space enables true resilience. Orbital infrastructure is inherently more robust against physical disruption, geopolitical conflicts, and centralized points of failure. For quantum companies, this resilience is not just a technical advantage, it is a strategic necessity. Let me now discuss the steps we have taken in building the quantum cloud economy. Throughout the YSAT Quantum Spatial Orbit Cloud, we are positioning ourselves as the intersection of quantum computers, cybersecurity, satellite infrastructure, and AI. This platform will support secure quantum communications, QQD, and post-quantum cryptography, distributed quantum computer access via cloud services and infrastructures, trusted AI processing in a space-based environment and global IoT edge services authentication secured by quantum-resistant technology. In parallel, we will continue disciplining investment through the Quantum Fund, supporting innovation and accelerating the commercialization on quantum and post-quantum solutions across our ecosystem. With that context, I will now turn to our recent capital raises, including March 2026 financing, and outlined how we are deploying this capital, particularly in support of the U.S. Semiconductor Personalization Center. During March 2026, CLSQ raised an additional $125 million, bringing our total cash position to approximately $530 million. This capital raise was undertaking with a clear and specific strategic rationale to fund the development of Seals SQ Semiconductor Personalization Center in the United States, which is a high capital intensive activity. These centers provide localized high secure environment certified to common criteria such as EL5+, and is specifically designed to customize, program, and inject cryptographic identities into semiconductor, transforming them into trusted post-quantum resilient devices, compliance with the NSA CNSA 2.0 framework. These are significant capital investment. Each U.S. center requires approximately $100 million in company investment, reflecting the specialized infrastructure, security accreditation, and operational capabilities required to deliver this level of certification, EIL 5 plus grade cryptographic personalization at the scale. CLSQ is already developing a comparable center in Murcia, Spain designed to serve the European market and align with the European Union legislation requirement. In addition, we are established in a center in India in partnership with Cain Semiconductor that just yesterday inaugurated their OSAT, extending our personalization capability into one of the world's fastest growing semiconductor market. Once operationally, these centers will serve as a dual strategic purpose. First, we'll generate direct revenue from semiconductor personalization center and cryptographic provision services, representing a meaningful and recruiting contribution to CLSQ top line from countries that today we are not able to reach. Second, and equally important, they will provide essential physical infrastructure to support the quantum vertical stack the company is developing. Our ultimate vision goes beyond security as a cost. We aim to transform security into a strategic value driver by enabling new services on business models such as secure in-vehicle transaction, electricity exchange between vehicles and grid, authenticated drone delivery, autonomous robotic access control, et cetera. CLSQ is strongly convinced of the conversions between post-quantum cryptography and quantum technologies, we will continue to build a broader quantum strategy, in particular around our collaboration with EROG. Further, partnership in quantum based on their line semiconductor technologies are also under active discussion. This includes ASIC design, in particular the development of a unique cryo-CMOs capability, as well as the integration of advanced security to support a fully secure quantum computer system. Through this approach, CLSQ is positioned itself at the intersection of secure semiconductor, post-quantum cryptography, and quantum technology with the ambition to become a clear player in building the next generation of trusted digital infrastructure in the United States. This position, nobody currently in the market has it. I will now turn back to the operator for QIA section, and I thank you very much for your attention for the moment.
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Great. Well, thanks for taking my questions, and congratulations on the year. Maybe just firstly on the pipeline for the new Quantum products, I think you might have mentioned you have 10 customers that are in kind of very active stages. I guess with the kind of with regulations starting to have an impact and teeth maybe in late 26, do you expect the number of customers you're engaging with to increase in that over the course of the year? So exiting 26, would we expect to have a significantly greater number of customer engagements on the quantum products?
Hi, Matt. Nice to talk to you again. And, yeah, I mean, I think there are several factors that is going to accelerate our sales in QS7001 post-quantum, not only at the silicon level, but also the software level. One of them, as I mentioned during the presentation, is the CNSA 2.0 and their equivalent regulatory framework that basically is saying that companies, especially companies that they are dealing with technology that serves the purpose of a critical infrastructure, needs to be PQC compliant. And this is an important driver because that means that governments around the world are putting that level of urgency. The second one is that we are gradually getting the certifications that they are required. This is a long process. Sometimes people don't understand how long it takes for the laboratories to certify those products. And many companies, they have expressed, as you can see on the $200 million pipeline, They have expressed strong objectives to deploy, but obviously they want to deploy a certified product, especially the companies and organizations, and they're working with government defense and critical infrastructure, which is the second driver. And I would say the third driver is the urgency created by the fact that there's now common consensus that the Q-Day is actually arriving faster than everybody thought. But remember last year, in January last year, we were still thinking that quantum computers will be only able to break RSA, triple DES. In 30 years' time, this was reduced to 10. And now Google announced yesterday that they are actually dividing that by 10. The urgency is actually very large. And sectors like the possibility of breaking Bitcoin, let's say that you break one wallet, imagine the consequences for the entire Bitcoin community. if one of those wallets will be compromisable because they have a quantum attack. Now, quantum companies are also expanding faster. Their qubits generation, the company we have invested and the ones that we are in the process of invest, they are already able to generate between 10 and 100 qubits. And some of them they are predicting to be able to reach the 500 qubits, which is what Google say that will actually be enough to break cryptocurrencies. So these factors are obviously accelerating the demand on the product in the market. We have a first-player advantage here, which is obviously hard to replicate it, even for very large companies that they don't necessarily have a PQC chip, are now approaching hosts and say, can we think with you? because one public information is Lattice Semiconductor, right? Then they will be teaming with Hush to be able to offer to their clients PQC chips. So this obviously, this is a very big entry into the market because Lattice has thousands of customers and they will accelerate the sales of those microchips. So I know that sometimes it looks like it's slow, but actually this is a total different computational architecture. This is not just improving or patching cybersecurity issues. This is actually redesigning the entire infrastructure that requires time and be sure that your product is to the level to solve that problem.
Thanks, Carlos. And then I guess my follow-up would be on the personalization centers. It sounds like you're moving forward in the U.S. It sounds like in 2026, but is it reasonable to expect that you'd be making those investments in 2026 and maybe generating revenue? and, you know, sort of opening the centers in 27? Or what's a reasonable timeframe to think about for the U.S. center and then the second one that you discussed?
Yeah, so you remember originally we had the idea to build a personalization center furnace crash from the beginning. And this is obviously a four to five years investment of time and resources. That obviously is a real estate problem, right? you have to get the authorization the land the building the contractors it is it is a tedious process especially now with the huge uh demand on data center infrastructure so it's hard to to find the right people to build those infrastructures so this was the original old thinking that we will build our own thing uh then we move into a more i would say pragmatic and and fast thinking which is Let's only team with somebody that has already a legacy infrastructure, operational, that they are in the same sector that we are, and they will like to upgrade their existing infrastructure to become a PQC personalization semiconductor center, which is a bit the model we have actually also in Spain. So that reduces the time to market by nearly three years, so that takes only around six months to one year by the time you're operational. That obviously requires buying machines because it's a big investment, you know, you still need. And this is the reason we raise money is because this was not in our budget, right, to develop a full personalization center within some existing infrastructure. We have several states and they have approached us with incentives to do it in their states. We are now combining this intention to bring us to one of those estates with a semiconductor company. Then they will be operational already in the state, and they would like to team with us to do that. So we should be able to announce very soon, I guess before the end of June, we should be able to announce where it's going to be located. And this obviously will have a huge, you know, potential for our deployment. That means that the chips will be personalized in the United States. That means that we will be fully CNSA 2.0 compliance because there will be chips that will be verifiable in a localized place. People can see them, can test them, can be assured. And all the cryptographic keys has been located at the center itself. That will also, you know, we are still a Swiss-French company. So many of our clients, they're saying, guys, come into the U.S. if you want to be bigger and grow your revenue. And obviously, that satisfies that requirement. So we believe that by the end of this year, we shall be able to have something very concrete in this area.
Thanks, Carlos. I'll turn back in the queue.
Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. As a reminder, if you'd like to be placed in the question queue, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. One moment, please, while we poll for further questions. Once again, that's star 1 to be placed in the question queue. We do have a follow-up from Matthew Kalinco for Max, and your line is now live.
Well, thanks for having me back. Carlos, you mentioned some of the intense demand for land and power resources, you know, coming from the AI industry. I'm curious, with some of the influence that's had on the semiconductor industry, I'm curious if that's having any impact on demand cycles from your customers or pricing or anything around margins that we might expect to hit you in 2026.
You mean from the energy sector in particular?
Just broadly, you know, we've seen some things about, you know, memory prices being, you know, incredibly high, storage prices being high from high demand from AI data center builds. I'm just wondering if that ends up influencing kind of the end, you know, the end customer that you're selling into for your products, if that changes anything about their timelines or sourcing, pricing, or anything that ends up impacting you.
We don't have that information. Obviously, there are different types of semiconductors, right? I think the – I mean, there is an interesting debate now that quantum computers will actually redesign a bit of the current infrastructure because you need less data center space, you need less computer, traditional compute capabilities. And at the end of the day, you need less chips from the memory companies, right? as quantum computers have a much powerful processing capability. What we believe is going to happen is that those chips that we are selling, it sells basically first to companies like smart meters companies. They want to secure smart meters because they are connecting smart meters to grids. And they are now in the process of learning how to tokenize the energy they process through their smart meters and also the energy that is revert back again to the grid. So this is where we launched Silcoin, which is a crypto token that basically allows this market to be exchangeable and transactional between devices. So this is something that we'll have the first client. We announced partnerships with Landis and Gear, which is already 40 million of Landis and Gear meters are already equipped with the software component of it, and the future meters will increasingly be PQC compliant. So this is the industries which are booming now because the current situation with oil and everything related to that is forcing companies to diversify the energy sources. And at least in Europe, this is becoming very, very big now. And our technology solves that problem because not only you secure the transaction, you authenticate the meter, you tokenize the energy collected by that meter, let's say from a solar panel, and you sell that energy to another meter in a peer-to-peer transactional process. So this is an area we see a big expansion for our capabilities.
All right. Thanks for that, caller. That's it for me. So, congrats again, and thanks.
Thank you very much, Matthew.
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