Counterfeit chips are large and growing problem putting both civilian and military supply chains at risk. Estimates of the size of the counterfeit market run to $75B and more. With electronics at the heart of so many of the products we depend upon, the risks of counterfeit semiconductors range from inconvenience to loss of property and life.
Rambus Licenses DPA Countermeasures to Utimaco
Cutting-edge hardware-based security technologies protect against side-channel attacks
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 25, 2020 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Utimaco, a leading supplier of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). The agreement includes the use of Rambus patents such as Differential Power Analysis (DPA) Countermeasures, which protect devices and integrated circuits against DPA and other related side-channel attacks. Specific terms of the agreement are confidential.
Developed by Rambus, DPA countermeasures incorporate extensive software, hardware and protocol techniques that protect devices from side-channel attacks, which are implemented in tamper-resistant products used in various applications. For more information on Rambus DPA Countermeasures and other security offerings, please visit https://www.rambus.com/security/.
In-Line ECC Product Brief
Part of a full suite of memory controller add-on cores, the In-Line Error Correction Coding (In-Line ECC) core works with the Northwest Logic GDDR6 and LPDDR4 Controller cores. The In-Line ECC implements the standard Hamming Code-based DRAM Single Error Correction (SEC) and Double Error Detection (DED) algorithm.
2.5D/3D Packaging Solutions for AI and HPC (Chinese)
For AI and HPC applications, HBM2E memory can deliver excellent bandwidth, capacity and latency in a very compact footprint thanks to its 2.5D/3D structure. The flipside is that this same structure leads to greater design complexity and raises a new set of implementation considerations.
Securing the Silicon Supply Chain
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the name Rambus, I think of the company that was founded in 1990. I remember them leaping into the limelight with a fanfare of trumpets. Well, if the truth be told, it was with their 600 MHz interface technology, which addressed the memory bottleneck issues being faced by system designers of the time, but hearing their sumptuous specifications was the computer engineering equivalent of having one’s ears massaged by a magnificence of mellophones.
5G and AI Raise Security Risks for IoT Devices
5G represents a revolution in mobile technology with performance that will rival that of wireline networks. 5G’s Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communication (uRLLC) links will enable a profusion of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered IoT devices from delivery drones to smart cities. The rapid rise in the number of smart IoT devices, coupled with expanded connectivity, will greatly escalate the growth of data and network traffic.
