HaiGuang Secures China Patent Gold for Trusted Computing Platform

R&D Investment as Core Asset

By the first half of 2026 HaiGuang’s R&D expenditure reached 26.52 billion yuan, a 55.05% year‑on‑year increase, with an R&D intensity of 29.15%. The company now holds 1,388 domestically and internationally authorized patents covering processor architecture, chip structure, process technology, security, and software adaptation.

Security Capability Raises Industry Barriers

The award‑winning patent, titled “Virtual Trusted Environment Loading, Running Method, Data Processing and Security Processing Device,” creates a trusted chain linking secure processors, hypervisors, and virtual machines. It enables multiple VMs to share hardware‑based trusted resources while maintaining separate keys, measurements, and security states, and supports flexible mounting and migration of the trusted root.

HaiGuang’s C86 processor integrates a secure processor, cryptographic co‑processor, and a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) that implements commercial Chinese algorithms SM2, SM3, and SM4, as well as memory‑ and VM‑level protections. The patent extends these hardware‑based trust capabilities to multi‑tenant cloud platforms.

Patent Technology Commercialization

The trusted‑computing technology is already deployed in HaiGuang’s processor series for cloud computing, finance, industrial control, government, healthcare, and vehicular networking. Commercially, the technology delivers three layers of value: it strengthens HaiGuang processors’ competitiveness in critical‑industry servers and private‑cloud projects; it leverages the broader x86 software‑hardware ecosystem to lower migration costs and accelerate domestic platform adoption; and its low‑level trusted interfaces enable coordinated adaptation across whole machines, operating systems, virtualization platforms, and security software, amplifying HaiGuang’s influence in the supply chain.

A single core patent can travel with each processor shipment, extending its commercial impact from the chip to servers, cloud platforms, and industry solutions, turning hardware trust roots into system‑wide security services.

Native Security Becomes Baseline

As cloud, AI, and large‑model workloads handle increasingly sensitive data, security is shifting from peripheral devices and software patches to being embedded directly in silicon. Processor competition will therefore expand beyond performance, price, and compatibility to include trusted roots, cryptographic capabilities, confidential computing, and vulnerability protection. Deeper native security raises the barrier for competitors, requiring higher R&D, patent, and ecosystem investment.

Overall, the Gold Award serves as a national validation of HaiGuang’s ability to convert heavy R&D investment into high‑value patents, embed those patents into processors, and scale them through servers and solutions, thereby widening the company’s commercial moat.