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I am guessing that once the new chip is ready, they will start installing it into new versions of one or both of those two wallets you just mentioned. The Trezor Safe 3 already has a secure element by a different company. I don't know how challenging it would be to change the design and incorporate this new chip into it. Maybe they will even delay the release of the second new hardware wallet just enough to finish their new SE and build it into the new model. I really don't think we will also see a 3rd hardware wallet by Trezor in the space of just a few years that will use this upcoming chip.
Even though it supports Monero and a few other cryptocurrencies that were missing on the Model One, for some reason it doesn't support some of them that were available on the older model
[a bit weird]:
Dropped list Luckily for those who will buy this device for altcoins, the list isn't that long and doesn't contain many "big" names. EOS and Dash are relatively popular, but with the former being completely silent for years and the latter having a flawed privacy feature.
Not to rain on everyone's open source parade, but all the TropicSquare chip will be is a partially open source secure element, with elements of the chip still black-box due to closed source foundry PDKs with foundry NDAs.
I have been saying that since I read their early announcement about their upcoming SE that was posted here in Czech. They said that open-sourcing everything is too big of a security risk, so they will try to make it
as open-source as possible.
It's still not late to change their mind. If the users love it, get a second batch going.