lowRISC launches first production of OpenTitan

(CONNECT) The non-profit organization lowRISC, based in Technopark Zurich and Cambridge, has announced the start of production of OpenTitan. According to a press release, the silicone silicon chips produced by Nuvoton are intended to function as a root of trust. This is a computer model that is constantly trusted by the respective operating system.

The open source project, in which several international industry players were involved, was initiated back in 2019 under the leadership of Google. On the Swiss side, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) took part. A large part of the development work was carried out by lowRISC at its site in Zurich.

OpenTitan is designed to support computer systems in fending off cyberattacks on the hardware. In order to cover as wide a spectrum as possible, the development was therefore tackled transparently by several manufacturers instead of concentrating on one company. According to the press release, larger quantities of OpenTitan chips will be made available by Nuvoton from spring 2025. ce/ww