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AWS Releases First Graviton3 Instances
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7g instances, the first EC2 instances running Graviton3 processors. Designed for compute-intensive workloads, they provide always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication.
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Increasing Collaboration at Ericsson: Hardware and Software Developers Learn Each Other's Language
You can integrate hardware and software development with a cross-border team setup, where it’s important that hardware and software developers speak each other’s languages. The suggestion is to focus on “us” instead of “we” and “them”, and on the technical competence that connects developers over agile or lean terminology.
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ARM Releases PlasticARM, a Plastic-Based Flexible Microchip
ARM takes another step forward towards powering a real IoT revolution: PlasticARM, its newly announced plastic based microchip, brings 18000 logic gates, 12 times more than previous models, and is the most complex flexible microchip to date.
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Amazon Announces New Bare Metal EC2 Instances
AWS recently announced new bare metal instances for Amazon EC2. The new M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances are already available and can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.
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Raspberry Pi 400 Is an ARM Linux Desktop PC
The Raspberry Pi 400 is a fully-functional Linux desktop computer and a Pi device. It is much cheaper than laptops or Chromebooks on the market, and yet could be more suitable for kids and students with a large ecosystem of STEM education materials and programs.
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Hardware Attack Exposes nRF52 Debugger
A hardware bypass enables attackers to restore full debug capabilities in the nRF52 radio chipset, used in many consumer and medical devices. Fault injection re-enables debugging in a way that attacks the silicon, unpatchable in software.
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Can We Build Trustable Hardware? Andrew Huang at 36C3
Andrew “bunnie” Huang recently presented at 36C3 on ‘Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware’ with an accompanying blog post ‘Can We Build Trustable Hardware?’ His central point is that Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use is very different for hardware versus software, and so open source is less helpful in mitigating the array of potential attacks in the threat model.
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Oxide Computer Company Launch
Jessie Frazelle, Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck have announced the launch of Oxide Computer Company to deliver ‘hyperscaler infrastructure for the rest of us’. The company aims to tackle the ‘infrastructure privilege’ presently enjoyed by hyperscale operators by developing ‘software to manage a full rack from first principles’, including platform firmware.
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How to Win a Solar Race Using Agile
The Nuon Solar team uses agile and Scrum to take the steps which add the most value to the project first, integrate different disciplines, ensure transparency and focus, and reflect to improve. Their goal is promote and educate the use of clean energy; the mission is to win the Sasol Solar Challenge in South Africa using the power of innovation.
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Apple Releases New Security Updates to Protect Safari against the Spectre Attack
Apple has released a trio of security updates aimed at protecting Safari and WebKit against the Spectre attack.
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Meltdown and Spectre: What They Are and How to Deal with Them
This article discusses the latest CPU vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre – and the current solutions to fix them.
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Intel Launch Optane SSD
Intel recently launched their 3D XPoint non-volatile memory (NVM) under the brand name of Optane. The SSD label in some of the branding might imply that it’s a different type of durable storage, but the technology is aimed at applications that would normally use RAM. This marks the beginning of the end of the compromise between in memory and persistent.
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Google Details New TensorFlow Optimized ASIC
The machine learning and engineering communities weigh in on news of Google's new TensorFlow optimized processor, the TPU and possibly influence several industry leaders in the hardware space like Intel and Nvidia.
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Mozilla Foundation Announces Firefox OS Contribution Program
In an effort to accelerate the development of Firefox OS, Mozilla announced a Contribution Program which will aim at providing dedicated developers with access to resources and reference hardware. Foxconn will manufacture the initial reference hardware, a tablet. The program will be open to developers, localizers, testers, and bug fixers.
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Can Agile Development Work in Hardware Projects?
With the take up of Agile approaches in the software world, some commentators in the hardware space have been asking how these techniques can be applied and used in the development of hardware-intensive systems. Two recent articles provide advice and guidance on possible ways to gain the benefits of Agile development in the hardware realm.