Is there a whitepaper or ISA manual change describing the feature?
The submission title goes "Intel and AMD standardize ChkTag ..." but the actual text says "Intel and AMD are working together, along with their ecosystem partners in the EAG, to address the need for memory safety. They are creating a unified specification ..." (emphasis mine). They don't even have a specification yet, let alone an implementation, but they want to make PR waves about it already. This is so funny (and sad).
But it wouldn’t surprise me if Apple‘s announcement they were shipping it already pushed Intel and AMD to agree on implementation details so they could announce this and get it going.