Tropic Square

Tropic Square is a fabless semiconductor company that develops TROPIC01, a secure element chip with an open architecture that serves as a hardware root of trust. The company publishes the design for independent review and invites outside researchers to test the chip.

Its customers are device makers building hardware crypto wallets, IoT devices, edge AI, robotics, automotive ECUs, critical infrastructure and industrial systems. The website names Trezor, ContentWise and RDDL as users and offers TROPIC01 devboards and samples for ordering.

The company is based in Prague, where its team works, and the registry lists a Czech s.r.o. founded on 2020-03-20. Its careers page lists open Prague roles for a Lead Python Expert and a Cryptographer. Press headlines on the site mention a four-million-euro investment and the chip's move into volume production.

Product: TROPIC01, an open-architecture RISC-V secure element chip with tamper resistance and cryptographic accelerators, sold as devboards and samples.