Silicom and Eideticom Partner to Create Cryptographic and Compression Solutions Suite

Silicom Ltd. announced that it has engaged in a strategic partnership with Eideticom to provide a comprehensive suite of advanced cryptographic and compression solutions based on Eideticom’s NoLoad platform and Silicom’s Altera-based BlueFjord and ThunderFjord platforms.  

These solutions are in high demand in the networking, data center, telecommunications, storage, and edge computing sectors.

As the infrastructure for these solutions, Eideticom, provider in cutting-edge cryptographic and compression IP, has integrated its high-performance NoLoad IP platform, which delivers proven performance and reliability in production environments around the world, with Silicom’s newest-gen Altera-based FPGA cards. This integration builds on earlier work by Silicom and Altera, which targeted use cases requiring the offloading of complex compute tasks from the CPU. One of the solution’s unique features is its ability to integrate into existing host applications without requiring code changes, enabling a rapid deployment that reduces time-to-value compared to traditional FPGA-based accelerators.

The combined solution addresses two of the market’s most important needs: agile, high-performance cryptographic acceleration to protect against data security threats, and scalable compression to meet the challenge of ever-rising volumes of data.  In addition, the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) solutions delivered through the partnership will enable customers to future-proof their products now against potential quantum-enabled cyber threats.

A prominent customer has already selected this cryptographic solution for its next-generation platforms, underscoring the growing need to safeguard critical communications in the post-quantum era. The resulting Silicom Accelerated Crypto Adaptor (SACA), based on both the Silicom BlueFjord and the Eideticom NoLoad, enables look-aside offloading of both pre- and post-quantum cryptography to assure secure communication and authentication.

The combined solution is launched on FPGA cards based on Altera Corp.‘s Agilex 7 FPGA family, which both Eideticom and Silicom consider to be the optimized silicon for the combined solution.

 Liron Eizenman, CEO, Silicom, stated: “This exciting strategic cooperation with Eideticom reinforces our position as a cutting-edge provider of high-performance cryptographic and compression technologies, both key technologies for our target Networking and Storage markets. Through this close cooperation, we are delivering a comprehensive, integrated solution that meets the rigorous security demands of our customers, ensuring their systems can achieve the performance they need with full protection against evolving quantum threats.“

Roger Bertschmann, CEO, Eideticom, added: “This partnership is a significant milestone in enabling Eideticom to deliver our NoLoad cryptographic and compression solutions to Silicom’s worldwide customer base as well as to its wide range of potential customers. The advent of Post-Quantum Cryptography and increasing data processing and storage requirements are driving the adoption of scalable, agile, and performant solutions, which Eideticom and Silicom are providing.  We are honored and excited to partner with Silicom, one of the industry’s leading network and data center infrastructure providers.”  

Mark Moran, director, development kits and partners, Altera Corp., remarked: “This partnership underscores the immense value of combining Altera’s leading-edge FPGA technology with the expertise of Altera Solution Acceleration Partners (ASAP), Silicom and Eideticom. The integration of our Agilex 7 FPGAs with these advanced cryptographic and storage solutions will provide customers with a future-proof, high-performance infrastructure capable of meeting the evolving challenges of quantum computing.”