David Becker/Getty Images Intel Executive VP and General Manager Data Center Group Navin Shenoy speaks during an Intel press event for CES 2019 in Las Vegas. Intel Says Its SGX Secure Enclaves Shine in Bare Metal Deployments Bare metal is making a comeback, and Intel says its chip-based confidential computing fits better than VM-based alternatives. Last summer, Google announced that it was using AMD's 2nd Gen Epyc chip to offer protected computing environments to its cloud customers. This approach, also known as confidential computing, allows an entire virtual machine to run inside a hardware-enabled secure enclave -- similar to the secure element in a smartphone that contains payment data but large enough for enterprise applications.