Intel Corporation

Kenji Chen

Prashant Dewan

Nivedita Aggarwal

Aditya Katragada

Mohamed Haniffa

Chao B Zhang

Chao Zhang

An apparatus to verify firmware in a computing system, comprising a non-volatile memory, including firmware memory to store agent firmware associated with each of a plurality of interconnect protocol (IP) agents and version memory to store security version numbers (SVNs) included in the agent firmware, a security controller comprising verifier logic to verify an integrity of the version memory by applying a hash algorithm to contents of the version memory to generate a SVN hash, and a trusted platform module (TPM) to store the SVN hash.

Firmware verification mechanism

An example system on a chip (SoC) includes a processor, a cache, and a main memory. The processor can receive a data packet from an electronic device via an interface device, the data packet comprising data for an offload processing task, where the data packet is in a standard link protocol format, the standard link protocol format comprising at least one of an offload protocol identification (ID) field, a tag field, a returned data length field, a flag field, a reserved field, a length field, or a data field. The processor can process the offload processing task to obtain result data. The processor can send the result data to the electronic device.

External universal boosting agent device that improves computing performance by managing the offloading of application tasks for connected electronic devices

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