NIST publishes IR 8615 — Workshop Report on Rolling Next-Generation Secure Hardware into Standards

NIST published Internal Report (IR) 8615 on 2026-09-01 (page metadata: created 2026-08-31, published/reviewed 2026-09-01), documenting outcomes from the SUSHI@NIST workshop on rolling next-generation secure hardware into standards. The report calls for unified, interoperable, evidence-based hardware-trust models, lifecycle security, provenance, and scalable verification across the semiconductor ecosystem, with explicit scope covering AI-hardware security relevant to AI infrastructure procurement and platform assurance.

This is non-binding technical guidance (a workshop report, not a normative standard or mandated control catalogue) but it lays groundwork NIST may formalize into future hardware-security standards relevant to AI accelerator/chip supply chains — an area of active regulatory interest (export controls, chip provenance) and increasing AI infrastructure procurement scrutiny.

Track for follow-on formal standards work; AI infrastructure/procurement teams should begin retaining component and supplier provenance evidence and monitor for NIST's translation of these recommendations into supplier-assurance requirements or SP 800-series guidance.