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.
The suggested twofold security inflation takes the form of adding features like Software Guard Extensions (SGX), Total Memory Encryption (TME), Platform Firmware Resilience (PFR), and cryptographic acceleration to the Ice Lake line.
"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
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