Top Stories

Self-Driving Cars Rattle Supply Chain
Shift from hundreds of MCUs to more centralized computing is creating chaos in the auto industry.

LiDAR Completes Sensing Triumvirate
Technology will complement cameras and radar in autonomous vehicles.

Security: Losses Outpace Gains
Complexity, new and highly connected technology, and more valuable data are making it harder to keep out hackers.

Conflicting Goals In Data Centers
Open Compute Project conference points to need for speed and extending existing technology.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling examines the link between random defects and the design process, in Pushing Batteries Too Far?

Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler finds that managing automotive systems is complicated by software and tracking requirements, in The Software Side Of Self-Driving.

Mentor Graphics’ Brian Derrick digs into who has the upper hand in the auto industry of the future—startups or established companies—in What The Chevy Bolt Really Means For The Electric Vehicle Market.

Rambus’ Christopher Gori points out that side-channel attacks can defeat most cryptographic security solutions, but there are ways to protect against them, in The Evolution Of Side-Channel Attacks.

Kilopass’ Paolo Piacentini observes that securing access to ECUs and the CAN bus is becoming a major focus in automotive, in Intelligent Compute Engines Driving Today’s Automobiles Need Better Security.

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