Rambus’s Cryptography Research Division (CRD) has entered into a partnership with Microsemi to resell a number of advanced security technologies developed by the DPA product engineering team at CRD. According to Michael Mehlberg, Senior Director of Business Development for Government Solutions at Rambus CRD, a recently signed reseller agreement includes both the DPA WorkStation™ and DPA Resistant Suite B cryptographic cores.
High Speed Memory Interface Chipsets Let Server Performance Fly
The demands on server performance continue to increase at a tremendous pace. New requirements from large in-memory databases that are powering today’s cloud services and advanced analytics tools are arriving just as the impact of Moore’s Law is starting to slow. This is setting up a classic performance challenge that requires rethinking some of the core elements of today’s server architectures, particularly when it comes to memory. One key new opportunity is for high-speed server memory interface chipsets, which enable high-speed memory performance without compromising on memory capacities. Companies looking to optimize their server memory architecture designs, and improve their overall server performance and reliability, should give serious consideration to optimized DDR4 memory interface chipsets, which enhance the performance of server memory modules.
Rambus Ecebs, Nexus & Scheidt & Bachmann awarded Best Smart Ticketing Service in Europe
January 2015
Tyne and Wear Metro smart card ticketing service voted best in Europe
Rambus Ecebs, Nexus and Scheidt & Bachmann Awarded Best Smartcard Ticketing Service in Europe
Nexus, which owns, manages and is modernising Metro, along with its main contractors Ecebs and Scheidt & Bachmann, won Best Smart Ticketing Service at the 2015 Transport Ticketing Awards in London.
The award was secured amid fierce competition in the UK, Spain and the Netherlands.
More than 100,000 Metro passengers now use smart products to make their journeys, including the Pop card and concessionary smart cards for older and disabled people.
And the ease of smart travel has contributed to a healthy growth in Metro passenger numbers, which are up 8% in the last year.
Cllr Nick Forbes, Transport Lead for the North East Combined Authority and Leader of Newcastle City Council, said: “Local authorities are leading the way in the roll-out of new smart travel choices in our region and that has been recognised with this national award.”
“The introduction of smart ticketing on Metro, delivered by Nexus for the Combined Authority, has been popular with passengers, helped increase the number of people using Metro and set high standards for quality and ease of use.”
Russell McCullagh, Managing Director of Rambus Ecebs, added: “Rambus Ecebs has worked hard to deliver a world class ticketing system with our partners Nexus and Scheidt & Bachmann. The award win recognises the great success that has been achieved for travellers in the North East of England and we are proud to be part that.”
Matthew Hammond, Sales & Commercial Director of Scheidt & Bachmann, said: “I’m delighted to receive this prestigious award which recognises the company’s hard work and successful partnership.”
Metro, used by 38 million passengers a year, now has 225 new ticket machines plus smart gates and validators across 60 stations as part of the roll-out of smart travel.
Passengers can also buy travel at about 460 Payzone shops across North East England.
And they will be able to enjoy Pay As You Go travel choices later this year, alongside the full range of season tickets already on sale, as part of a local council-led project to provide a single smart technology for the whole region.
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Rambus Cryptography Research Division Enters Agreement with Microsemi
DPA resistant products, technologies, and services available to help combat threats in highly-sensitive markets
SAN FRANCISCO and ALISO VIEJO, Calif. — January 29, 2015 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced that Microsemi Corporation (NASDAQ:MSCC) will serve as reseller for certain differential power analysis (DPA) technologies developed by its Cryptography Research division. This reseller agreement includes the DPA WorkStation™ and the recently-announced DPA Resistant AES cryptographic cores that offer chipmakers an easy-to-integrate solution to protect against side-channel attack vulnerabilities. Microsemi will focus its reseller efforts on the government and military sectors.
The agreement also enables Microsemi to conduct training classes to help customers evaluate their vulnerability to DPA and related side-channel attacks, helping chip purchasers and downstream customers identify devices with the most effective security. As the first major FPGA company to license DPA countermeasures, Microsemi has identified DPA as a significant vulnerability in chip security, specifically for the mission-critical applications found in government and military settings.
“The threat of side-channel attacks, particularly DPA, is very real in the military and government space,” said Greg Ellis, vice president and product line manager at Microsemi. “Acting as a trusted partner that can offer training, testing and IP core products around DPA provides Microsemi with a substantial security differentiation while also assuring the rigorous security requirements of our government and military customers are being met.”
Microsemi’s newest generation of SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2® FPGA programmable devices are the industry’s most secure, boasting four key elements needed for secure programmable devices—secure hardware, design security, data security and being built through a secure supply chain management system. The Cryptography Research DPA Workstation and associated testing services complement these FPGAs from Microsemi, as well as the company’s existing portfolio of cryptography, anti-tamper and anti-reverse engineering IP products, including WhiteboxCRYPTO™, CodeSEAL™ and EnforcIT®.
“The relationship with Microsemi is important and we look forward to seeing our relationship continue to grow, benefitting government and military customers with expanded access to a full range of DPA-resistant solutions,” said Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist of the Rambus Cryptography Research division. “As more and more embedded systems contain high value and sensitive information, the threat of side-channel attacks will continue, making it imperative to have a partner like Microsemi delivering much needed products, tools and services to the market.”
Side channel and DPA attacks involve monitoring the fluctuating electrical power consumption of a target device and then using advanced statistical methods to derive cryptographic keys and other secrets. Strong countermeasures to these attacks help protect tamper-resistant products used in a variety of applications outside of government and military verticals, such as banking, pay television, mass transit, secure ID, and wireless telecommunications.
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The Rambus Cryptography Research division specializes in embedded security solutions to combat the worldwide threat to data integrity, our innovative technologies span areas including tamper resistance, content protection, network security, media and payment and transaction services. Eight billion security products are made annually with our security technology, and systems designed by our scientists and engineers protect hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues every year. Additional information is available at cryptography.com.
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Microsemi Corporation (NASDAQ:MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the world’s standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,400 employees globally. Learn more at microsemi.com.
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DRAM bit demand rises
Analysts at SEMI have confirmed a favorable outlook for DRAM as bit demand rises, bolstering selling prices in 2013 and 2014. “The DRAM sector experienced a sharp decline during the 2008/2009 financial crisis and subsequently contracted, both in the number of suppliers and in installed fab production capacity,” SEMI researchers explained in a recent press release.
Cyber attack shatters the digital-physical barrier
Writing for Wired, Kim Zetter reports that a recent cyber intrusion in Germany marked the second confirmed case in which a (wholly) digital attack caused physical destruction of equipment. “The first case, of course, was Stuxnet,” Zetter explained. “That attack was discovered in 2010 and since then experts have warned that it was only a matter of time before other destructive attacks would occur.”