Semiconductor Traceability and Provenance Workshop

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the Semiconductor Traceability and Provenance Workshop on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) conference facility, in Rockville, Maryland. This in-person, one-day event builds on the momentum from the April 2025 workshop on Trust and Provenance in the Semiconductor Supply Chain, which identified traceability as the top priority of semiconductor industry stakeholders.  

As semiconductor devices grow more complex and globally distributed, the risks from counterfeit components, malicious tampering, and opaque sourcing threaten the security, reliability, and resilience of critical systems. Strengthening traceability and provenance is essential to mitigating supply chain threats, supporting national security imperatives, and addressing the grand challenges in secure microelectronics (https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/CHIPS/NIST.CHIPS.1000.pdf).

The workshop will convene technical leaders across the semiconductor ecosystem (e.g., hyperscalers, auto and semiconductor companies, federal agencies, academia) to address the practical challenges and opportunities for implementing traceability in semiconductor chips. This one-day event will feature plenary, panel, and interactive breakout sessions. Participants will be encouraged to collaborate and discuss key questions and topics that will identify short-term (<1 year) and longer-term (2028-2029 time frame) activities related to semiconductor traceability and provenance. The topics that will be considered include but are not limited to:

• • Existing solutions
  • Technical, operational challenges to traceability adoption
  • Opportunities for public-private collaboration (e.g., hyperscalers, automobile,
    semiconductor companies, government agencies, academia)
  • Roadblocks to alignment and paths to overcoming them
  • Economic drivers and pilot use cases for traceability
  • Frameworks for joint standards development and implementation
  • Roadmap for collaboration and path to success

Key findings/decisions will be published in a post-workshop report.