Qualcomm Joins Trusted Firmware to Support Open Source Secure Firmware
[Cambridge, UK – March 23, 2026] - The Trusted Firmware Project, an open governance community dedicated to providing a secure foundation for the Arm® ecosystem, today announced that Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has joined as a Platinum member. Qualcomm Technologies joins a group of industry leaders, including Arm, Google, Linaro, STMicro Electronics, Renesas, NXP, Futurewei, Provenrun, Nordic Semiconductor and Texas Instruments.
Qualcomm Technologies’ decision to join the Trusted Firmware project underscores its commitment to advancing open, industrywide collaboration in secure firmware and platform security. By becoming an active member of the Trusted Firmware community, Qualcomm Technologies will contribute its deep expertise in secure system architecture to the development of widely adopted, high quality reference implementations that underpin trusted boot, secure runtime services, and trusted execution environments across Arm based platforms. This collaboration strengthens Qualcomm Technologies’ ability to align its products with evolving industry standards, accelerate innovation, and deliver robust, scalable security solutions for customers and partners across mobile, automotive, IoT, and compute markets.
“Security is foundational to everything we build at Qualcomm,” said Tony Hamilton, Principal Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “By joining the Trusted Firmware project, we are reinforcing our commitment to open collaboration and industry standards that enable strong, scalable security across the ecosystem. We look forward to contributing our platform expertise while working alongside the community to help shape the future of trusted firmware for next‑generation devices.”
“The industry needs to shift towards “Secure by Design”, ensuring trust is built into devices at the firmware level”, said Shaun Longhorn - the Community Manager for the Trusted Firmware Project. “Qualcomm Technologies’ extensive experience in securing hundreds of millions of connected devices will significantly boost our ability to support and steer the Trusted Firmware Community, helping drive a new global standard for firmware security and interoperability. We are thrilled to welcome Qualcomm as a Platinum Member to the Trusted Firmware Project.”
Trusted Firmware reduces fragmentation and integration costs across the industry by creating reusable reference implementations. This includes reference implementations of secure software for Armv8-A, Armv9-A and Armv8-M. It provides SoC developers and OEMs with a reference trusted code base complying with the relevant Arm specifications.
Trusted Firmware is the preferred implementation of Arm specifications, allowing quick and easy porting to modern chips and platforms. This forms the foundations of a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on application processors, or the Secure Processing Environment (SPE) of microcontrollers.
For further information on the Trusted Firmware Project, visit trustedfirmware.org.
About the Linaro Community Projects Division
The Trusted Firmware project is hosted by Linaro Community Projects Division - the division of Linaro managing open source community projects with open governance. Linaro empowers rapid product deployment within the dynamic Arm ecosystem.
