AMD To Integrate "Project Caliptra" Into Products Beginning In 2026

As another interesting AMD announcement this week following their Advancing AI event yesterday where they launched the EPYC 9005 series and other new hardware, they've continued with a few more soft announcements in the lead-up to the OCP Global Summit happening next week. The latest interesting tid-bit is their plans to incorporate Project Caliptra into their products beginning in 2026.

Caliptra is an open-source root of trust project backed by Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and others. Caliptra aims to be an open-source silicon Root of Trust (RoT) to provide for better security within edge and confidential computing environments. Caliptra is primarily aimed at data center hardware such as CPUs / GPUs / TPUs / DPUs and consist both of silicon-level functionality as well as firmware guarantees. Project Caliptra was born out of the Open Compute Project (OCP).

AMD announced on the community.amd.com blog that they will begin integrating Caliptra into products beginning in 2026. AMD's
Alex Tzonkov noted:

"AMD has strategic plans to integrate Project Caliptra into its 2026+ product lineup."

AMD believes making use of Caliptra will lead to better transparency and collaboration around open-source security, more consistency and reliability, and enhanced security.

This will presumably be at least within AMD EPYC data center products while we'll see if it ends up touching any consumer products and if it's also adopted by their data center GPUs/accelerators. With the 2026 timeframe it's potentially for premiering with EPYC Zen 6 processors in mind depending upon how the next-generation timing plays out. We'll learn more as those 2026+ AMD wares approach. Hopefully Caliptra proves much more useful than AMD's Pluton integration, which it should given the open-source and in part OCP focus.