SEALSQ's 9 September 2026 Interview on Fifteen-to-Twenty-Year Medical Device Lives, and the QS7001 Page That Still Lists Kyber and Dilithium 2

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On 9 September 2026 Carlos Moreira, founder and chief executive of the Nasdaq-listed semiconductor company SEALSQ, described in a published interview a post-quantum exposure specific to connected physical systems, among them medical devices, which he sets alongside the familiar risk of stored data waiting to be decrypted later. His reason rests on an arithmetic any hospital finance office already runs: equipment bought today could remain in service well beyond the transition date NIST has proposed.

Many connected devices stay fifteen or twenty years in service and cannot be swapped out quickly. A draft NIST report proposes that the public-key algorithms those devices ship with become disallowed after 2035, with the weaker parameter sizes deprecated five years earlier. The company's answer is a secure microcontroller called the QS7001, whose product page names medical and healthcare devices as a target market, and whose specification sheet still lists Kyber and Dilithium 2, the names those algorithms carried before NIST standardized them.