Axiado Corporation

Axiado Corporation is a security processor company founded in San José, California, in 2017. The company focuses on developing AI-enhanced hardware security technologies to protect cloud infrastructures, 5G base stations, networks, and IoT devices from digital threats. Axiado's flagship product is the Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU), a new class of security processors designed to redefine cybersecurity for data centers, 5G base stations, and network markets. The TCU integrates a Secure Vault root-of-trust, cryptography core, and a per-platform Secure AI pre-emptive threat-detection engine.

In May 2023, Axiado introduced the AX3000 and AX2000 TCUs, which are the world's first fully integrated AI-driven hardware security platform solutions. These processors are designed to detect and prevent cybersecurity and ransomware attacks on next-generation servers and infrastructure elements in cloud datacenters, 5G networks, and network switches. The TCU acts as a "last line of defense" by residing in the lowest layer of the hardware stack and integrating all security functions within a single System-on-Chip (SoC) or module. Housed in a 23 x 23 BGA SoC and drawing under 5W, the TCU includes features such as a distributed hardware security manager, anti-tamper and anti-counterfeit hardware, and a control/management plane SmartNIC network interface controller.

Axiado's technology combines silicon, AI, data collection, and software into a compact, power-efficient SoC with unique AI functionality explicitly designed for security. The company's solution aims to eliminate breaches at the perimeter of existing cloud infrastructures, 5G base stations, networks, and IoT devices. The TCU platform relies on AI-based real-time threat mitigation with forensic-enabled hardware fingerprints and platform monitoring using AI and machine learning.