Rambus Fellow Dr. David G. Stork was recently elected “Life Fellow” by the Optical Society of America (OSA). OSA Fellows are selected based on their overall impact on optics, as gauged through factors such as specific scientific, engineering, and technological contributions, a record of significant publications or patents related to optics, technical leadership in the field, and service to OSA and the global optics community.
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A closer look at Rambus’ SDA research platform
Rambus’ Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) research platform focuses on architectures designed to offload computing closer to very large data sets at multiple points in the memory and storage hierarchy. Potential use case scenarios include real-time risk analytics, ad serving, neural imaging, transcoding and genome mapping.
Rambus partners with Los Alamos National Laboratory on smart data acceleration
The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is currently evaluating various aspects of Rambus’ Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) Research Program. Deployed at LANL, the SDA platform is designed to optimize the performance of in-memory databases, graph analytics and other Big Data applications.
ReRAM gains traction in the memory space
Writing for Semiconductor Engineering, Michael Watts reports that Resistive RAM (ReRAM) appears to be gaining traction. “Once considered a universal memory candidate—a replacement for DRAM, flash and SRAM—ReRAM is carving out a niche between DRAM and storage-class memory,” Watts explained. “ReRAM (known alternately as RRAM), is a type of non-volatile memory that began garnering attention in 2009 when startup Unity Semiconductor emerged from stealth mode.”
Securing the silicon of the IoT
Paul Kocher, the Chief Scientist of Rambus’ Cryptography Research Division, recently participated in an ARM TechCon panel about securing the Internet of Things (IoT). As Kocher told conference attendees, strong hardware-based crypto
needs to be accompanied by an equally robust software security layer.
Creating and cracking secure ciphers
Steven Woo, VP of Solutions Marketing at Rambus, recently sat down with Ernest Worthman of Semiconductor Engineering to discuss the concept of secure ciphers. “One of the key challenges is how to develop a cipher that continues to be difficult to crack against the increasing capabilities of computing power, over time,” Woo told the publication. “[Remember], given enough time and resources, any cipher can be cracked.”
