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Rambus Enhances Enterprise-Grade Security for Data Center and AI SoCs with CryptoManager™ Root of Trust Supporting the Caliptra™ Specification
CryptoManager Root of Trust for use with Caliptra specification provides a production-ready Root of Trust and security orchestration solution that accelerates deployments and enables advanced security for mission-critical data center and AI infrastructure devices
- Provides Root of Trust and security orchestration interoperable with the open-source Caliptra framework
- Accelerates customer deployments with a complete hardware and software integration framework, including dedicated drivers, APIs, and system-level security applications
- Delivers best-in-class side-channel protection, cryptographic agility, integration flexibility, and support for data center and AI SoC designs

Figure 1: CryptoManager Root of Trust Supporting Caliptra Specification
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sep. 14, 2026 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today announced its CryptoManager™ Root of Trust supporting the Caliptra™ specification, a production-ready Root of Trust and security orchestration solution designed to deliver enterprise-grade security for mission-critical data center and AI SoCs. Interoperable with the open Caliptra framework, the Rambus solution helps semiconductor designers accelerate deployments with added protection, flexibility and support. CryptoManager Root of Trust delivers platform-wide security awareness with proven side-channel and fault-injection protections and best-in-class cryptographic agility for a low-risk path to volume implementations of highly secure data center and AI infrastructure devices.
Caliptra is an open-source silicon Root of Trust designed for integration into data center-class SoCs. Initiated through the Open Compute Project and now developed within the CHIPS Alliance, it combines hardware, firmware and specifications to provide a common foundation for device identity, measured boot and attestation across CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, DPUs, networking devices and other infrastructure components. Its transparent, collaborative model supports greater consistency across devices from different suppliers.
Production-Ready Security for Customer Caliptra Deployments
With the CryptoManager Root of Trust supporting the Caliptra specification, designers can build on the open-source foundation to implement a complete production security subsystem. This addresses integration into the wider platform, provides the software and security orchestration needed for deployment, adds protection against advanced attacks, supports evolving cryptographic requirements, enables additional security certifications and maintains the solution throughout the device lifecycle.
“As the Caliptra ecosystem gains momentum, organizations need a practical path to deploy scalable and supportable security solutions in demanding production environments,” said Simon Blake-Wilson, SVP and general manager of Silicon IP at Rambus. “CryptoManager Root of Trust supporting the Caliptra specification provides the hardware, software, advanced protections and commercial support needed to accelerate deployment of differentiated, enterprise-grade security that is interoperable with the Caliptra framework.”
The CryptoManager Root of Trust supporting the Caliptra specification provides dedicated hardware-level security in an SoC, combining a secure RISC-V processor, protected memory, secure key and data storage, cryptographic accelerators, and secure interfaces. Operating alongside an unmodified open-source Caliptra Project core, it mediates interactions between the Caliptra Project core, the host processor and other SoC components so that security-sensitive operations can remain within a protected boundary while trust is extended across the wider platform.
Through specialized drivers and security applications, CryptoManager Root of Trust provides platform-level awareness enabling security monitoring, policy enforcement, secure lifecycle management, and coordinated protection of critical system resources. The CryptoManager architecture supports classical, post-quantum, and regional cryptographic algorithms, along with advanced protections against side-channel and fault injection attacks, and certification support for security standards such as FIPS 140-3 and SESIP.
By combining enterprise-grade security with simplified integration and certification readiness, the CryptoManager Root of Trust delivers a production-ready security platform for next-generation data center and AI semiconductor devices.
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Securing Data Center and AI Infrastructure with CryptoManager™ Root of Trust for Use with the Caliptra™ Specification
The unprecedented growth of data centers and AI infrastructure brings with it a host of challenges. To address performance and power requirements, architectures continue to move to greater heterogeneity where purpose-built AI accelerators, SmartNICs and XPUs complement CPUs to tackle increasingly complex workloads. From a security perspective, this increasing complexity creates a larger attack surface, while at the same time, the value of the data and AI assets continue to rise. As a result, the challenge of establishing system-wide trust as a foundation for protection has never been greater.
At the heart of this challenge is the need for a hardware Root of Trust. A Root of Trust provides the foundational security services required to establish device identity, verify code integrity, protect cryptographic assets and support attestation throughout the lifetime of a device. In AI and cloud infrastructure, where valuable models, proprietary data and critical workloads are constantly in motion, a trusted foundation has become essential.
This need for a common security foundation is one of the reasons why the Caliptra™ project is gaining industry momentum. Developed through collaboration among leading cloud and semiconductor companies, Caliptra provides an open-source silicon Root of Trust architecture designed specifically for data center-class devices. It helps create a common framework for device identity, measured boot and attestation while enabling greater consistency across hardware platforms.
However, adopting Caliptra is only the beginning of the journey.
The Challenge of Moving from Adoption to Deployment
An open-source Root of Trust provides a valuable starting point, but production deployment introduces a new set of requirements. Silicon vendors must connect the Root of Trust to the broader SoC architecture, integrate it into secure boot and attestation flows, manage provisioning and lifecycle requirements, and support the cryptographic services needed by the rest of the platform.
Organizations pursuing deployment quickly discover that a production-ready security architecture must address issues beyond the scope of a baseline implementation. Questions arise around certification readiness, secure provisioning, attack resistance, software integration, long-term maintenance and support. Many products also require greater cryptographic capabilities, including agile support and regional cryptographic standards.
Bridging the Gap with CryptoManager Root of Trust for Use with the Caliptra Specification
To help semiconductor companies move from Caliptra adoption to production deployment, Rambus is introducing use with the Caliptra specification.
The CryptoManager solution is designed to work alongside the Caliptra core. Caliptra can provide the ecosystem-aligned foundation for device identity, measurement and attestation, while the Rambus solution extends trust across the broader SoC and delivers the capabilities required for commercial deployment, including support from Rambus.
This approach is particularly important for organizations seeking alignment with the Caliptra ecosystem and who require Caliptra trademark compliance. The CryptoManager solution preserves the role of an unmodified Caliptra implementation, including trademark compliance, while adding the infrastructure necessary to transform that foundation into a complete security architecture.
The solution provides a secure execution environment, protected key storage, platform-level security orchestration, dedicated Caliptra drivers and system applications, as well as the integration framework needed to simplify deployment. Together, these capabilities enable customers to extend trust throughout the platform rather than limiting it to the boundaries of the Caliptra subsystem.
For organizations targeting frameworks such as FIPS 140-3, PSA Certified or SESIP, the CryptoManager Root of Trust provides a structured foundation that helps simplify certification-oriented development efforts.
Accelerating Time to Market
Beyond security, development efficiency is becoming a critical competitive advantage.
Building a complete Root of Trust architecture from the ground up requires substantial engineering investment. Development teams must create firmware, APIs, drivers, management applications, integration frameworks and documentation before they can begin focusing on product differentiation.
CryptoManager Root of Trust for use with the Caliptra specification reduces this burden by delivering a comprehensive hardware and software integration framework that includes secure firmware, device drivers, APIs, system applications and supporting documentation. Optional integration, maintenance and certification support services provide an additional layer of expertise to help customers accelerate deployment and reduce risk.
The result is a solution that allows engineering teams to spend less time building security infrastructure and more time creating innovative products.
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