Oh my apologies! I hadn't known about that intermediate version.
I don't know of a public announcement. Tock's license is acknowledged in Chromebook's licenses and those involved in Tock know simply because that team talks to us (a few of us interned on that team back when we were PhD students to help the effort at various stages as well).
It's not a secret, but it's also not something that seems to be high on anyone's todo list over there to announce.
Correction, it's not the EC that runs Tock, but rather the GSC (the creatively named Google Security Chip). It used to run a system called Cr50 while recent versions run Ti50, which is Tock-based.
I don't know of a public announcement. Tock's license is acknowledged in Chromebook's licenses and those involved in Tock know simply because that team talks to us (a few of us interned on that team back when we were PhD students to help the effort at various stages as well).
It's not a secret, but it's also not something that seems to be high on anyone's todo list over there to announce.