OpenTitan

2024: Product Announcement

On February 13, 2024, the OpenTitan Coalition and the nonprofit lowRISC introduced the first commercial open source security microprocessor. The chip can be used in areas such as the Internet of Things and critical infrastructure.

The OpenTitan project, initiated by Google in collaboration with lowRISC and partners in 2018, aims to create trustworthy hardware components (RoT, Root of Trust). The initiative is supported by Winbond, Nuvoton, zeroRISC, Rivos, Western Digital, Seagate, etc. The OpenTitan platform ensures the secure loading of critical system components using authorized and open source code. Anyone can check, evaluate and contribute to the OpenTitan project and documentation.

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The concept provides for the presence of various logical blocks relevant to RoT chips. These are, in particular, a microprocessor based on the RISC-V architecture, a hardware random number generator, a mechanism for secure storage of data in memory, cryptographic components, I/O elements, secure loading tools, etc. In fact, OpenTitan provides the foundation to increase the level of trust in the solutions being created and reduce the cost of developing specialized security chips.

OpenTitan products can be used in a wide range of equipment. These are server motherboards, network devices, including routers, consumer electronics, etc. The next step after the commercial availability of the processor is to jointly develop the first Secure Execution Integrated Environment (SEE) based on OpenTitan. Winbond and ZeroRISC specialists take an active part in these works.^[1]

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