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by transpute 475 days ago

  2019 Linux Foundation Confidential Computing
  2015 Intel SGX (Skylake)
  2014 Apple Secure Enclave (A8, iPhone 6)
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> 2015 Intel SGX (Skylake)

Might be worth pointing out that SGX was compromised repeatedly and comprehensively by speculative execution attacks, e.g.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...

Signal famously bet the (contact discovery) farm on SGX. A controversial design decision at the time, for good reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15340729

ARM TrustZone launched with the Arm1176JZ-S in 2004.