Secure RISC-V processors

It’s just a silicon revolution.

IONION designs secure, high-performance processors for space and safety-critical systems.

Detail of an IONION die layout

Critical systems run on hardware they can’t fully trust.

Software patches can’t fix flaws that live in the silicon. The threats have moved down the stack, and the defences must follow.

Transient Execution Attacks

Attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown turn performance features into side channels that leak sensitive data.

Untrusted supply chains

Distributed design flows and third-party IP open the door to silicon tampering and Hardware Trojans inserted before the chip is ever deployed.

Unforgiving environments

In orbit and in safety-critical systems, radiation and faults corrupt data silently, and there is no second chance.

Detail of an IONION die: dense routing

Security designed into the silicon.

Built on the open RISC-V standard, every IONION processor combines proprietary protection, high performance and fault tolerance in one architecture.

  • Immune to Transient Execution Attacks
  • Real-time detection of tampering and Hardware Trojans
  • Proprietary Speedup technology for concurrent workloads
  • Rad-hard by design, with ECC/EDAC throughout
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A team of engineers and physicists in Milano. Over five decades of combined expertise in security and hardware design.

50+
Years of combined expertise
3
Processor families
RISC‑V
Open ISA foundation
Rad‑hard
By design, for space
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Let’s build secure silicon for systems that cannot fail.

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