Microchip has launched a hardware crypto-enabled 32bit microcontroller which can add security to IoT devices, offering encryption and authentication. To reduce man-in-the-middle, denial-of-service and back-door attacks, the chip allows for pre-boot authentication of the system firmware in order to ensure that the firmware is untouched and uncorrupted, thereby preventing security attacks such as vulnerabilities. It …

Updated: Microchip’s hardware-encrypted micro for IoT

Intel passed ST to become the third largest vendor of industrial semiconductors, says Semicast Research. No,1 was TI and No.2 was Infineon. Renesas was No.5. Semicast defines the industrial sector to include traditional areas such as factory automation, motor drives, lighting, building automation, test & measurement and power & energy, as well as medical electronics …

ST Drops Down League Of Industrial Semi Suppliers

Engineers at Oregon State University have tripled heat transfer (in W/m2K) in heatsinks that rely in liquid boiling, by finding a way to induce and control boiling bubble formation. “One of the key limitations for electronic devices is the heat they generate, and something that helps dissipate that heat will help them operate at faster …

Heat pipes improved by high-tech dots

Even when Intel was one of the world’s ten most valuable companies, and Gordon Moore was chairman of it, he still didn’t have his own parking space, complaining once: “We have so many people in Santa Clara that if you leave during the day, it’s difficult to get a parking space when you come back.” …

A Tenuous Industry

EC2 Auto Recovery, an Amazon EC2 feature designed to increase instance availability, is now available in Beijing (China). With Auto Recovery, you can automatically recover supported instances when a system impairment is detected. Auto Recovery keeps your existing instance running and automatically recovers your instance on new underlying hardware, if needed, so you do not generally need to migrate to a new instance. 

Black & Veatch provided construction project management and design services on two of the four completed key facilities of the Emergency and Carryover Storage Project (E&CSP), which provides the region with up to six months of emergency water storage.

The total value of the transaction is approximately $23 million.

Siemens will make these energy and water conservation measures at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Ashland and the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Lexington.

Real-time sewer network modeling and analytics-driven risk-based asset management software to improve business planning, infrastructure sustainability and resiliency.

There’s something a bit repetitive about Intel and telecoms. At the turn of the century it spent $10 billion buying up telecoms companies in an attempt to get into the market. It failed to have much impact. Now, it seems, it has spent another $10 billion trying to get into wireless telecoms and has failed …

Californian Delusion