“It allows us to maintain a level of understanding in our supply chain that we otherwise wouldn’t have,” Mueller reportedly said. The chip’s presence comes as cloud firms such as Google, with many thousands of servers spread across the world in different data centres, become increasingly concerned at the possibility of nation-state hackers, or indeed sophisticated cyber criminals, gaining access to their hardware.Īnd it should be remembered that a lot of this hardware is assembled in Asia before the server reaches and is installed to service core markets such as the US or Europe. “If anything has been changed, Titan chip will prevent the machine from booting.”

“Titan scans hardware to ensure it has not been tampered with,” Neal Mueller, head of infrastructure product marketing for Google Cloud Platform, told Reuters in a recent interview. The Titan chip was first announced in March and is predominantly a hardware protection device. The Titan chip is said to be the size of a small stud earring and more technical details will be disclosed on Thursday, according to Reuters.

Google is set to detail a new security chip for its Google Cloud Platform (GCP), believing it will give it an edge over rival providers Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

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