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This work outlines a three-tier strategy for a European semiconductor vendor to align its internal R&D endeavors with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s post-quantum cryptography (PQC) competition. We explore how a European semiconductor vendor is affected by a technological breakthrough in an adjacent technological field and policies from regulatory and nonregulatory organizations like NIST, European Technical Standards Institute (ETSI), and Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI). Strength, weakness, opportunities, threat (SWOT) analysis for the semiconductor vendor is conducted to showcase why there is a need to align the vendor’s internal R&D efforts with the vendor’s innovation portfolio and NIST’s PQC standardization effort. The technology roadmapping framework is adopted for this case study where the drivers and their intrinsic motivation to drive PQC standardization effort are identified. The features that the drivers identified earlier want in their products and services are identified. We look into the resources at the disposal of the semiconductor vendor to achieve the features identified earlier. We outline a visual technology roadmap at the end of the analysis and a short-term, mid-term, and long-term strategies for the semiconductor vendor to achieve its goals. |
