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GlobalPlatform
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Industry standards body governing secure-element specifications for SIM, embedded secure element (eSE), trusted execution environment (TEE), and root-of-trust silicon. Originated as Visa-driven smart-card consortium; current 100+ member organizations span hyperscalers, mobile silicon, and security IP vendors. Launched the Pavona open-silicon post-quantum-cryptography distribution on 2026-05-26 with ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204) hardware accelerators, founding members ZeroRISC, Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, and Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy.
Founded 2003 First tracked 2026-05-27
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2026-05-266PRODUCT · PQCStandards body GlobalPlatform launches Pavona, the first open-source silicon distribution with hardware-accelerated ML-KEM and ML-DSA post-quantum primitives and FIPS 140-3 / Common Criteria alignment, with founding members including Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, ZeroRISC, and Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyCAL·1