Jintide Montage Processors in mass production

[Brad Man]

Sorry original article seems to be click-bait as the processor is a joint effort by Intel and Tsinghua University to create a CPU and server architecture that has built in hardware security monitoring.

Clickbait article that started this: https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/intel-and-amd-shouldnt-panic-yet-but-this-chinese-vendor-has-repacked-a-xeon-cpu

Exert:

• Jintide Montage might sound like the name of a punk group, but it's not. In fact, the Montage is an x86 processor with PrC (Pre-Check) and DSC (Dynamic Security Check) technologies that can be used in Jintide or other server platforms.
  It shares common DNA with Intel, AMD and VIA and uses Skylake Xeon silicon at its core - and has already entered mass production.

 

References (more digging):

- The article just references the english text off the product webpage (linked below and the same as the Simplified Chinese as best I can tell)

• CPU english webpage: http://www.montage-tech.com/Jintide_CPU/index.html
• Whois results show domain active since 2014 so not a new rebrand: https://ca.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=montage-tech.com
• Conference paper on Secure DIMM (matching memory for the CPUs) and there is an IEEE paper from 2018 on this
  • Title: Secure DIMM: Moving ORAM Primitives Closer to Memory
  • Link: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~lifeifei/papers/securedimm.pdf
• Tom's hardware did a cover on this CPU in 2019: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/intel-tsinghua-jintide-xeon-processor-cpu-china,40207.html
• From a press release in 2017 the CPU is a joint project between Intel, Tsinghua University and Montage: http://www.montage-tech.com/Press_Releases/id/203.html

 

Conclusions: I think it would be really neat to do a talk linked between Wendell and (Linus or Anthony) about current server tech, how developers should select for home NAS, Render and Workload with a looking into some of the stranger options such as this one with built in security.

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Brad Man
Sorry missed the notes that I did a lot of digging and while really cool it is not new news.

[Bombastinator]

Some stuff this article caused me to google that might be useful to other readers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University

 

http://www.montage-tech.com/Jintide_Platform/index.html