Insider Brief
- BWT Alpine Formula One Team and SEALSQ are expanding their quantum technology collaboration to explore hybrid quantum-classical simulation alongside quantum-secure infrastructure.
- The project will evaluate ColibriTD’s H-DES solver for applications including computational fluid dynamics, thermal, structural and multiphysics simulations alongside classical high-performance computing.
- Teams from BWT Alpine, SEALSQ and ColibriTD met in July 2026 to establish an initial roadmap and identify priority areas for a planned proof of concept.
PRESS RELEASE — BWT Alpine Formula One Team and SEALSQ (NASDAQ: LAES ) today introduce an expanded collaboration that brings quantum-powered computation alongside quantum-secure infrastructure to one of Formula One’s most demanding engineering environments.
Building on the quantum-security partnership BWT Alpine Formula One Team and SEALSQ launched in November 2025, the project aims to add the technology developed by ColibriTD, a company part of SEALSQ quantum investment portfolio, to introduce hybrid quantum-classical simulation capabilities and extract additional insight from the team’s available computing and testing resources.
The project represents a world first: the structured application of quantum-accelerated simulation to solve fundamental physics problems faster and more efficiently than classical methods alone, combined with advanced post-quantum data protection and purpose-built.
With the 2026 Formula One technical reset, being able to extract more insight from the simulations the team produces would be valuable.
The collaboration reached an initial milestone in July 2026, when engineers and executives from BWT Alpine Formula One Team, SEALSQ and ColibriTD met in Enstone to establish the project’s initial roadmap and identify priority areas for evaluation with the goal to develop a proof of concept (PoC).
SEALSQ ‘s Quantum Fund (SEALQuantum.com) is a strategic investment initiative launched in 2025 by SEALSQ and designed to accelerate the development of a fully integrated Quantum Vertical Sovereign Stack — a comprehensive end-to-end “Root-to-Qubit” ecosystem that ensures technological independence, cybersecurity resilience and trust in the emerging quantum era. ColibriTD, one of SEALSQ’s earliest investments through the Fund in 2025, has developed a solver capable of improving the calculation efficiency and accuracy of the equations that matter for applications including CFD, thermal, structural and multiphysics problems.
Carlos Moreira, SEALSQ CEO:
“This project with BWT Alpine Formula One Team is a perfect application of the Quantum Vertical Sovereign Stack SEALSQ is building through our $200 million Quantum Fund. By integrating the capabilities of portfolio companies such as ColibriTD within the SEALQuantum.com ecosystem, we are turning quantum technologies into practical solutions that deliver real performance gains in the most demanding industrial environments. “
David Sanchez, Executive Technical Director, BWT Alpine Formula One Team :
“We are in constant pursuit of better understanding in every area and are always looking at how emerging technologies can help us extract insight from data and simulations to underpin engineering decisions. Working with SEALSQ and ColibriTD gives us an exciting opportunity to explore the potential of quantum within our existing environment.”
Laurent Guiraud, Co-Founder of ColibriTD “ColibriTD operates under constraints that mirror BWT Alpine Formula One Team: today’s quantum hardware is limited in qubit count, coherence time and connectivity, much as the team’s simulation budget is limited by regulation. H-DES is built specifically for this reality — a near-term, hardware-agnostic approach that extracts computational value from current and emerging quantum processors without waiting for fault-tolerant quantum computing, deployed alongside classical HPC rather than in place of it”.