Wired

Microsoft's Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD's Help

The most sensitive parts of your computer have come to live in a distinct hardware component known as a "secure enclave." These chips are designed not only to keep hackers from accessing your system's ...
Dark Reading

Hifn Launches Security Processor

LAS VEAGS -- Network- and storage-security market leader Hifn™ (Nasdaq: HIFN), announced today a new FlowThrough security processor designed for Gigabit Ethernet Networking applications. The HIPP III ...
CRN

New Microsoft Security Chip Will Go Inside Intel, AMD CPUs

‘Rather than asking customers to bolt on security processors as you would with a [Trusted Platform Module], we‘re building right into the DNA of the processor a security co-processor that’s going to ...
ZDNet

First Windows 11 on Arm laptops arrive with Microsoft's Pluton chip. Here's why it matters

The first Arm-based laptops with Microsoft's Pluton security co-processor have arrived in the form of Lenovo's new ThinkPad X13s, which features Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chipset.
EDN

Implementing Security Processors for Low-Cost Encryption

Nothing in life is free. This has been proven true from man's quest to protect himself from the elements in pre-historic times to protecting himself in the Information Age. There's a price one pays, ...
ExtremeTech

Apple's T2 Security Processor Has an Unpatchable Security Flaw

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EDN

Processor makers eye security issues

Cavium Networks Inc. and Transmeta Corp. are separately working to lower the cost and design barriers to network security by manufacturing integrated chips. “Among all communications market segments, ...
ZDNet

Windows 10: Microsoft reveals Pluton security chip – 'Expect Patch Tuesday-type updates'

Microsoft has announced its Pluton processor, a forthcoming chip that lives apart from the main CPU and which will be available in future Windows 10 PCs. The Microsoft Pluton processor is designed to ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft brings its on-die Pluton security processor to Intel, AMD CPUs

Microsoft is integrating its Pluton security processor directly into Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm CPUs to better secure Windows PCs. Windows 10 gains enhanced security by utilizing specialized chips ...
CSOonline

Microsoft’s Pluton security processor tackles hardware, firmware vulnerabilities

While this year’s Consumer Electronics Show was impacted by COVID, it didn’t stop Lenovo from announcing the first Microsoft Pluton-powered Windows 11 PCs. First announced in 2020, the Pluton is a ...
Electronic Design

Processor Drives Wireless-Access Security

Wireless-Internet security may perform better if the speed of transactions is increased. A new Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) chip, called the RC32365 Interprise Access integrated communications ...