Arm CCA Confidential Computing: Arm Builds Data Center Secure Enclaves
Arm chips for mobile and IoT devices have supported secure enclaves – a concept known as confidential computing – for years. It’s called the Arm TrustZone trusted execution environment, and it’s been available for mobile devices since 2004 and in its M-Class IoT since 2014. The chip designer is now bringing confidential computing to its data center-class chip designs.
The Armv9 architecture, launched in March, features Arm CCA (Confidential Compute Architecture).
Related: Arm’s New Neoverse V1, N2 Chips Take on Intel in the Data Center MarketSince Arm, based in Cambridge, UK, licenses its designs out to various chipmakers, the release will help democratize confidential computing in data centers, Mark Knight, director of architecture products at Arm, said. Server-chip giants Intel, AMD, and IBM each have their own secure enclave...
