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The Future of Commodity Hardware Security & Your Data
By Alexandrea Mellen

The emergence of the smartphone industry has enabled the commodity hardware market to expand at an astonishing rate. Providers are creating cheap, compact, and widely compatible hardware, which bring about underestimated and unexplored security vulnerabilities. Often, this hardware is coupled with back end and front end software designed to handle data-sensitive applications such as mobile point-of-sale, home security, and health and fitness, among others. Given the personal data passed through these hardware devices and the infancy of much of the market, potential security holes are a unique and growing concern. Hardware providers face many challenges when dealing with these security vulnerabilities, foremost among them being distribution and consequent deprecation issues, and the battle of cost versus security. Continue reading
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Mouser Electronics is now stocking the Texas Instruments TUSB320 family of USB Type-C configuration channel logic and port controllers from Texas Instruments (TI). The TUSB320 family of devices provide USB Type-C configuration channel (CC) logic and port control, making it ... Continue reading →...�

 

Infineon Technologies recently announced that it developed a digital platform for power supply with which LED lighting systems can be controlled intelligently, thus making maximum energy savings possible. According to Infineon, with .dp digital power 2.0, development time can be reduced ... Continue reading →...�

 

Dialog Semiconductor and Atmel Corp. recently announced Dialog will acquire Atmel in a cash and stock transaction for approximately $4.6 billion. According to reports, the deal will likely close in the first quarter of 2016. The transaction-which has been unanimously approved by ... Continue reading →...�

 

FTDI recently launched a new family of evaluation/development modules to encourage the implementation of its next-generation USB interfacing technology. Its FT600/1Q USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ICs are in volume production and backed up by the UMFT60XX offering. The family comprises four models that ... Continue reading →...�

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