Silicom Awarded $2M/Yr Design Win for Cryptography Hardware Acceleration Solution by Application Delivery Leader

KFAR SAVA, Israel, Sept. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), a leading provider of networking and data infrastructure solutions, today announced that an application delivery market leader has awarded it a Design Win for an advanced FPGA Smart Card. The customer will use the Silicom card for SSL hardware acceleration and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) encryption/decryption offload, thereby freeing up its server resources, improving overall network performance and simplifying its solutions' management of secure connections.

At full ramp-up, which is scheduled to build throughout 2026, revenues related to this Design Win are expected to reach $2 million per year.  In parallel, the two companies are engaged in discussions about the use of a next-generation Silicom platform for future applications, a deal with significantly larger potential than the current Design Win.

The customer selected Silicom due to the cutting-edge features of its FPGA-based Smart Card technology, coupled with the Company's track record over many years as a trusted supplier and technology partner for many industry leaders.

"The fact that this global technology giant relies on our products to sharpen its performance edge is a vote of confidence that resonates with other industry leaders," commented Liron Eizenman, Silicom's CEO. "They've been impressed by the sheer volume of network traffic that our card can process in real-time, a challenging achievement for an SSL acceleration solution that involves computationally-intensive Post Quantum Cryptography."

Mr. Eizenman continued, "In fact, this is the second technology giant that has selected our PQC-ready FPGA smart card in just the last few months, each one a leader in its market segment. As attacks from quantum computers become more commonplace, and as a growing number of regulators around the world mandate a transition to quantum-resistant algorithms, we expect many more customers to be interested in this critical functionality."

About Silicom

Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to improve performance and efficiency in Cloud and Data Center environments, Silicom's solutions increase throughput, decrease latency and boost the performance of servers and networking appliances, the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced Cloud architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN and Cyber Security. Our innovative solutions for high-density networking, high-speed fabric switching, offloading and acceleration, which utilize a range of cutting-edge silicon technologies as well as FPGA-based solutions, are ideal for scaling-up and scaling-out cloud infrastructures.

Silicom products are used by major Cloud players, service providers, telcos and OEMs as components of their infrastructure offerings, including both add-on adapters in the Data Center and stand-alone virtualized/universal CPE devices at the edge.

Silicom's long-term, trusted relationships with more than 200 customers throughout the world, its more than 400 active Design Wins and more than 300 product SKUs have made Silicom a "go-to" connectivity/performance partner of choice for technology leaders around the globe.

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