Controllers Newsletter – Q1 2020

Looking Ahead to 2020 from Northwest Logic, now part of Rambus Northwest Logic is now part of Rambus Inc., a premier silicon IP and chip provider. We are now proud to offer comprehensive memory and SerDes IP solutions, including PHYs and controllers. We continue to offer standalone controllers, providing customers with the ability to get […]

PCI Express 5 vs. 4: What’s New? [Everything You Need to Know]

Securing our IoT future

The holiday season brought with it a surge of new IoT devices, from smart toys and doorbells to automatic pet feeders – and it doesn’t stop there. According to IDC, investment in IoT is predicted to top $1 trillion in 2020. As our homes, businesses and cities become more connected than ever before, this number […]

Storage and Networking Bytes: PCIe5, OpenShift, and Veeam

Let’s start with PCIe5, the spec for which was finalized in early 2019. Now manufacturers are now getting revved up to produce PCIe5 hardware in 2020, which will be a boon for data- and processor-hungry workloads like machine learning and AI, as well as high performance computing (HPC) workloads that rely on GPUS, FPGAs, and […]

Accelerating AI And ML Applications With PCIe 5

The rapid adoption of sophisticated artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) applications and the shift to cloud-based workloads has significantly increased network traffic in recent years. Historically, the intensive use of virtualization ensured that server compute capacity adequately met the need of heavy workloads. This was achieved by dividing or partitioning a single (physical) server into multiple […]

Cable Haunt vulnerability can give hackers remote access to approximately 200 million cable modems

Danish cybersecurity experts Alexander Krog, Jens Stærmose and Kasper Terndrup of cybersecurity firm Lyrebirds ApS, and independent Danish researcher Simon Sillesen, announced a new vulnerability dubbed Cable Haunt. In the announcement, they disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in hundreds of millions of cable modems. According to the website the researchers set up, “The […]

What Makes Secure Processors Different?

Given the magnificent complexity of modern microprocessors, it’s inevitable that they’ll have bugs and security holes. It might even be physically impossible to create a bug-free CPU, but that’s a mathematics/physics/EDA/statistics/philosophical conundrum that’s above my paygrade. For now, we finds the bugs and we works around ’em.

Memory subsystem solution for next-generation AI training chip

Rambus has announced that Enflame (Suiyuan) Technology has selected Rambus HBM2 PHY and Memory Controller IP for its next-generation AI training chip. Rambus memory interface IP enables the development of high-performance, next-generation hardware for leading-edge AI applications.

California’s IoT Law Is A Good Start, But More Needs To Be Done

Passed by former California governor Jerry Brown, cybersecurity law SB-327 went into effect on Jan. 1. This proactive legislation requires manufacturers to equip IoT devices with “reasonable” security features to prevent unauthorized access, modification and data leaks. Specifically, SB-327 requires manufacturers to implement a unique preprogrammed (default) password for each device. Additionally, manufacturers must ensure that users […]

California’s IoT law is a good start, but more needs to be done

Written by Paul Karazuba, head of product, Rambus Security Passed by former California governor Jerry Brown, cybersecurity law SB-327 is slated to go into effect on January 1, 2020. This proactive legislation requires manufacturers to equip IoT devices with “reasonable” security features to prevent unauthorized access, modification and data leaks. Specifically, SB-327 requires manufacturers to […]