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Intel completes RAMP-C pilot, enabling secure domestic chip production

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Intel has concluded its RAMP-C production pilot program, a U.S. government initiative launched in 2021 to establish a secure domestic ecosystem for advanced chip manufacturing on its 18A process. The program provided funding to partners like Nvidia, Microsoft, and IBM to test chips using an unfinished design kit, paving the way for future commercial and defense production. This pilot has helped shape Intel's Secure Enclave manufacturing flow, designed for sensitive defense industry products. AI

IMPACT Enables secure domestic production of advanced chips, potentially impacting AI hardware supply chains.

RANK_REASON Completion of a government-funded pilot program for domestic chip production on advanced processes.

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Intel completes RAMP-C pilot, enabling secure domestic chip production

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Luke James ·

    Intel closes out RAMP-C production pilot that paid Nvidia and others to run test chips on 18A — program helped lay a path for secure domestic chip production on advanced processes

    Intel Foundry says that it has completed RAMP-C, the U.S. defense program awarded to the company in 2021 to stand up a domestic leading-edge chip ecosystem on its 18A process.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Intel closes out RAMP-C production pilot that paid Nvidia and others to run test chips on 18A — program helped lay a path for secure domestic chip pro… Intel Fo

    Intel closes out RAMP-C production pilot that paid Nvidia and others to run test chips on 18A — program helped lay a path for secure domestic chip pro… Intel Foundry says that it has completed RAMP-C, the U.S. defense program awarded to the company in 2021 to stand up a domestic …

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