AMD disclosed on October 12, 2026, that it will demonstrate a semiconductor-provenance proof of concept with Microsoft at the 2026 OCP Global Summit. The demo uses a 6th Generation AMD EPYC processor and is designed to let a relying party independently check whether manufacturing records are authentic and bound to the processor being evaluated.
Confirmed: AMD says it creates a hardware bill of materials (HBOM) across key manufacturing stages and cryptographically binds it to the finished SoC. Microsoft Artifact Signing signs the provenance statement; Microsoft Signing Transparency records it using the IETF SCITT architecture. A validator can then check the signature, device binding, ledger receipt and issuer policy.
Claim: AMD says the workflow could give cloud customers stronger evidence that workloads are running on the expected hardware. That is a company claim, not an independently measured outcome. AMD also explicitly says this is a proof of concept and should not be read as a product commitment.
The 2026 system extends AMD’s earlier device-provenance work by joining provenance, signing, transparency and validation in one flow. The OCP Global Summit runs October 12–15 in San Jose.
What is not known: AMD has not announced commercial availability, pricing or a deployment schedule.
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Primary sources: AMD announcement · AMD Device Provenance · OCP provenance session archive.
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