Security News > 2020 > October > Intel celebrates security of Ice Lake Xeon processors, so far impervious to any threat due to their unavailability
Intel on Wednesday talked up a set of security features planned for its promised third-generation Xeon Scalable Processors, code-named Ice Lake, which are supposed to show up before the end of the year.
The chip biz said it's "Doubling down on its Security First Pledge," as if some sort of quantitative measurement of security could be calculated and weighed against prior security commitments.
"With a focus on encrypting and protecting data at rest, in transit and in use, Ice Lake helps our customers move beyond encrypted data to encrypted computing," said Lisa Spelman, corporate VP in Intel's Data Platform Group and general manager of the Xeon and Memory Group, in a video presentation.
Today's announcement that the security mechanism is coming to Ice Lake Xeons thus signals its arrival in mainstream Intel server processors.
Intel's Ice Lake Xeons are also protected by an additional layer of security known as not actually being available to you and I right now.
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