Hardware

Today, support for Confidential Computing is widely available on microprocessor product lines available on the market.

Enterprise vendors offer several Confidential Computing implementations, with varying capabilities and performance limitations, and security trade-offs.

Confidential Cloud currently supports the following hardware:

CPU

• SEV-SNP

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  AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) - Secure Nested Paging (SNP)

  Confidential Computing capability is available from 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors (FamilyName: Milan) and newer.

  Read the official documentation.

• TDX

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  Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX)
  
  

  Confidential Computing capability is available from 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (FamilyName: Emerald Rapids) and newer.

  Read the official documentation.

GPU

• NVIDIA

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  Confidential Computing capability is available from H100 Tensor Core Processors (FamilyName: Hopper) and newer.

  Read the official documentation.

SmartNIC

Coming soon:

• SEV-TIO

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  Read the official documentation.

• TEE-IO

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  Read the official documentation.