CSIT has supported a number of spin-out companies over the years including Affyon, Ditaca, Sirona, Liopa, Sensurity and Cognition Video, which focused on delivering cyber security solutions involving content inspection, visual speech recognition, cryptography technologies, intrusion detection and platforms for automatic and intelligent image and video processing.

Our most successful spin-out, Titan IC Systems, was founded in 2009 based on the pioneering work of Professor Sakir Sezer and Dr Dwayne Burns, previously Principal Engineer at CSIT.  Over eleven years, CSIT and Titan IC collaborated on many projects and the company was used as a vehicle for commercialising network intelligence and security technology such as the RXP regular expression processor developed at the Centre. Titan IC was acquired in 2020 by Mellanox, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems and subsequently NVIDIA, the US based semiconductor company which designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system-on-a- chip units for the mobile computing and automotive markets. Following the acquisition CSIT worked with NVIDIA on a large Invest NI Grant for R&D proposal in 2021, which saw the company’s R&D operations expanded further in Belfast.