Introducing Niobium

Niobium Microsystems creates custom integrated circuit and microelectronic system solutions for clients with complex power, performance, and security constraints.

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We thrive in the complicated

Our bespoke designs optimize power and performance in the most complex computing environments including:

Microelectronics Applied Research

Domain Specific Architectures

Secure Designs for Critical Applications

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About Niobium

Niobium builds upon 20 years of commercial and federal computer science and system-on-chip expertise. As a spin-out of Galois, Niobium is highly experienced with high assurance, formal methods, and research and development capabilities. We create designs that are most useful to our customers – from soft IP to complete finished and tested SoC solutions.

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August 9, 2021

Niobium announces DARPA contract

Niobium Microsystems is proud to announce its first contract as a spinout of Galois in support of the DARPA Program Data Protection in Virtual Environments (DPRIVE). For this program, Niobium is developing a Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) hardware accelerator. Historically, the state of the art of FHE processing has been very slow, millions of times […]

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March 5, 2021

Why Niobium?

Today’s microelectronics space is quickly evolving to meet power, performance, and security (PPaS) demands. In response, custom ASIC designs are creating a rapidly growing market. This is why Niobium Microsystems, a spinout of Galois Inc., was founded. The combination of our novel design techniques and custom intellectual property (IP) at advanced process nodes makes it […]

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