Axiado's Hardware-Rooted AI Agents Reimagine Security And System Management in The Datacenter

Author: Ben Lavine, Product Marketing and Management, Axiado Corporation Collection: 2025 OCP Global Summit - Expo Hall Sessions

Summary

Axiado, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Jose (~160 employees), presents the AX3080 Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) -- a system-in-package that integrates BMC, Root of Trust, TPM, AI accelerators, NIC, LPDDR, BIOS Flash, BMC Flash, and eMMC into a single module that replaces the entire discrete DC-SCM card. The TCU provides 10-20x the compute power of traditional BMCs with built-in high security and AI-driven scalability. It ships as DC-SCM 2.0 compliant modules in both Horizontal Form Factor (HFF) for OCP/Intel/AMD/Ampere platforms and Internal Form Factor (IFF) for NVIDIA platforms, labeled SCM3002.

The core innovation is running AI agents autonomously on the TCU silicon, independent of the host OS and cloud, enabling real-time security and system management. Demonstrated agents include: real-time log analysis (anomaly detection from boot through runtime), vulnerability management (continuous scanning against a vulnerability data lake), dynamic thermal management (AI-controlled fan speed achieving 50%+ power savings versus conventional table-based control), and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (20% GPU power savings, 40% CPU power savings without performance impact). For a Pegatron GB200 server with 4 Blackwell GPUs and 2 Grace CPUs, combined DTM and DVFS savings total 7.3 MWh/year; for a full NVL72 rack (18 GB200 servers), savings reach 132 MWh/year or approximately $20,000/year/rack at $0.15/kWh. Scaled to a 7,500-rack gigawatt AI factory, this projects to $150 million in annual savings.