Industry Leaders Formally Launch SCMP OCP Workstream for Open, Secure AI Infrastructure Management and Control
Key Highlights
- ➤SCMP launches as an OCP workstream for open, secure AI infrastructure control
- ➤Lattice and AMI invited to lead SCMP development by the Open Compute Project
- ➤AMD, AMI, Arm, ASPEED, Intel, Jabil, Lattice, Microsoft, and NXP join as founders
- ➤SCMP workstream launches in Q4 2026 and remains open to all OCP participants
- ➤AI data center capital expenditure projected to reach $1.2 trillion in 2027
Expert Statements
Ford Tamer, CEO, Lattice Semiconductor
“As AI infrastructure scales toward autonomous operation, the management and control plane becomes the foundation of trust. That foundation should be open and verifiable, and SCMP gives the industry a common architecture to achieve it, from silicon to rack to grid. We’re pleased to launch this work with OCP and our founding contributors, and we invite the industry to help define it.”
Sanjoy Maity, SVP, AMI, A Lattice Company
“Firmware sits at the center of every data center's control path, and AMI has seen firsthand where fragmentation limits security and interoperability. SCMP turns that experience into an open specification that any vendor can implement and any operator or auditor can verify. We are contributing alongside the other founding members, and look forward to working with the OCP community to make trusted management and control the golden standard for AI infrastructure.”
George Tchaparian, CEO, Open Compute Project Foundation
“SCMP represents an important milestone in advancing open, trusted infrastructure management for next-generation AI data centers. It also complements OCP's 'Chip-to-Grid' Vision and the Mission by bringing the needed Open Firmware (BMC and FPGAs) designs integrated with Open Hardware! OCP welcomes this initiative from Lattice and AMI, and all the other founding companies contributing to the OCP's SCMP workstream. This reflects our shared commitment to open collaboration, interoperable standards, and a more secure foundation for AI-scale infrastructure and end-to-end computer continuum developments.”
Eddie Ramirez, Vice President of Go-to-Market, Cloud AI, Arm
“AI infrastructure is increasingly being designed at the rack level, where compute, networking, security and management need to work together as a trusted system. Through SCMP, Arm is bringing our compute, security and platform expertise to the OCP community to help define an open, interoperable foundation for trusted AI infrastructure at scale.”
Industry Leaders Formally Launch SCMP OCP Workstream for Open, Secure AI Infrastructure Management and Control
Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable and platform firmware leader, and AMI, a Lattice company, today announced SCMP (Secure Control and Management Plane), a new Open Compute Project workstream. Announced during a joint keynote at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, SCMP is an open, vendor-neutral architecture for secure control, boot, and management of data center infrastructure. It gives data center operators more confidence that complex AI systems will work as expected across vendors and platforms, with less integration risk and more freedom of choice. SCMP defines how a control authority establishes and maintains trust from silicon root of trust through rack and pod, building on existing OCP initiatives and industry standards.
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