Silex Insight, a leading provider for flexible security IP cores, announces increased speed for their Chacha20-Poly1305 hardware crypto engine that is geared towards high-throughput applications. The RFC7539-compliant IP core offers customers future-proof authenticated encryption between highly networked applications, for example in IoT or cloud computing. This IP core is available
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Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation (Eindhoven, NL) is founded in 2011 as a spin-out of Philips Research and got integrated into Medtronic in 2014. Their mission: to revolutionise personalised brain stimulation and treat neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Sapiens selected ICsense (www.icsense.com) for the development of the core component in
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NEWTON, MA – September 30, 2021 – There is a lot of secret data around us, some less valuable and some more valuable. The most valuable secrets, such as cryptographic keys, should be given the best possible protection – and that protection starts in hardware, rather than in software. This is
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After a surge in semiconductor merger and acquisition announcements in the second half of 2020, the strong M&A momentum carried into the beginning of 2021, with purchase agreements for chip companies, business units, product lines, and related assets reaching a total value of $15.8 billion in 1Q21, setting a record-high
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IC Insights’ August and September Updates to the 2021 McClean Report featured a two part analysis on the global IC foundry market. The total foundry market consists of pure-play foundries like TSMC, GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC—companies that only produce ICs for other companies and integrated device manufacturer (IDM) foundries like Samsung and Intel that offer
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The world we are living today is full of complex digital systems that we need to rely on. They are becoming more sophisticated and infinite complex. Safety and security of these systems are of critical importance and repercussions of malfunctions can be catastrophic. Even with rigorous testing, there can be
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