🛠 ROOM Enclaves Adoption Pathway

Stage 1 – FPGA / Prototype (Now)

• Form: Verilog modules on FPGA (DE10 Nano, dev boards).
• Goal: Prove collapse-on-read, entanglement, and metadata enforcement in hardware.
• Value: Establish novelty + patent protection + demo viability.
• Users: Researchers, DARPA testbeds, cryptography labs.

Stage 2 – PCIe / External Accelerator (1–3 years)

• Form: ROOM implemented on a PCIe card (like GPUs or HSMs).
• Goal: Provide a drop-in “ROOM Engine” for servers. Keys collapse in hardware, but host only sees wrapped or ephemeral outputs.
• Value: Market entry for enterprises → “Hardware unclonable key accelerator.”
• Users: Banks, defense contractors, cloud hyperscalers (pilot programs).

Stage 3 – SoC Security Co-Processor (3–6 years)

• Form: ROOM integrated as a security block inside SoCs, like AES or SHA accelerators.
• Goal: Embed ROOM into ARM/Intel/AMD chipsets as a companion primitive for secure enclaves.
• Value: On-die collapse means no bus exposure; faster adoption in consumer devices (phones, laptops).
• Users: Mobile security (Apple Secure Enclave, Google Titan), TPM replacements.

Stage 4 – CPU Enclave Integration (6–10 years)

• Form: ROOM primitives available as ISA extensions (e.g., ROOM_LOAD, ROOM_ENTANGLE).
• Goal: Standardize ROOM as part of trusted execution environments (Intel SGX vNext, AMD SEV, ARM TrustZone+).
• Value: Cloud-scale adoption → ephemeral keys for SaaS, finance, military workloads.
• Users: Cloud providers, defense, healthcare, governments.

Stage 5 – Ubiquity (10+ years)

• Form: ROOM cells as standard CMOS memory primitive, like SRAM or DRAM cells.
• Goal: Every chip has ROOM at transistor level. Collapse enforced everywhere.
• Value: Universal “no-cloning on read” security baseline → hardware guarantees instead of software policies.
• Users: Everyone — from smartphones to satellites.

🚀 Strategic Takeaway

ROOM moves up the adoption ladder:

FPGA → PCIe card → SoC security core → CPU enclave → universal primitive.

At the CPU-enclave stage, ROOM becomes the de facto hardware standard for unclonable key lifecycles — the logical endpoint for post-algebraic cryptography.