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LLMs Add Safety Risks To Physical AI
By Liz Allan - 06 Nov, 2025 - Comments: 0

Humanoid robots with artificial general intelligence are some years from entering our daily life, but application-specific robotics are already here. From Amazon’s fleet of fulfillment center robots to robotic surgical systems in operating rooms, search and rescue robo-dogs, autonomous drones, and last-mile delivery robots, all the way down to the humble Roomba vacuum cleaner, physical AI sys... » read more

AIxCC 2025: What It Means For Device Security
By Jasper van Woudenberg - 06 Nov, 2025 - Comments: 0

The DARPA-sponsored Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) culminated at DEF CON 33 this year, marking a moment where autonomous AI systems demonstrated they can both find and patch vulnerabilities at machine speed. Over two years, teams developed Cyber Reasoning Systems (CRS) designed to scan, prove, and fix bugs in open-source programs without human aid. In the final round, seven t... » read more

Moving AI Workloads To The Edge
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Nov, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: Semiconductor Engineering gathered a group of experts to discuss how some AI workloads are better suited for on-device processing to achieve consistent performance, avoid network connectivity issues, reduce cloud computing costs, and ensure privacy. The panel included Frank Ferro, group director in the Silicon Solutions Group at Cadence; Eduardo Montanez, vice president an... » read more

New Standardized Semiconductor Cybersecurity Assessment (SSCA) Strengthens Security And Collaboration Across Global Supply Chain
By Alan Weber - 23 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

The SEMI Semiconductor Manufacturing Cybersecurity Consortium (SMCC) Work Group 3 (Supply Chain Cybersecurity) just released a major work product that will have a significant and lasting positive impact on the industry: the “Standardized Semiconductor Cyber Assessment (SSCA)” questionnaire. Creating a common security assessment process for device makers, equipment suppliers, software s... » read more

Statistical Model Checking As An Evaluation Tool of Microarchitectural Side Channels (Duke, Harvard, Univ. of Florida)
By Technical Paper Link - 17 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Rigorous Evaluation of Microarchitectural Side-Channels with Statistical Model Checking" was published by researchers at Duke University, Harvard University and University of Florida. Abstract "Rigorous quantitative evaluation of microarchitectural side channels is challenging for two reasons. First, the processors, attacks, and defenses often exhibit probabili... » read more

Rethinking Security In Semiconductor Testing: Why Containment Is The New Imperative
By Arik Peltz - 14 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

It’s nearly impossible to keep up with the headlines without stumbling upon another major cybersecurity incident. According to recent reports, 2024 witnessed a staggering 5.5 billion breaches globally. In the United States alone, the average cost of a single data breach clocked in at $9.36 million—slightly lower than 2023’s figure, but still a significant hit for any organization. On a gl... » read more

Why Anti-Tamper Sensors Matter: Delivering A Comprehensive Security Solution
By Raj Uppala - 09 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

If your device processes valuable data, controls a critical function, or connects to a wider network, it’s a target. Attackers don’t just try to break software; they increasingly physically tamper with hardware: probing, fault injecting, or opening enclosures to bypass protections and extract secrets. The consequences range from IP theft and fraud to orchestrated downtime across fleets ... » read more

How The Cyber Resilience Act Shifts Open-Source Responsibility To Vendors
By Marc Witteman - 09 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), adopted last year, aims to strengthen product security in several ways. One of its most ambitious goals is the elimination of exploitable vulnerabilities from digital products. Vendors are now obligated to identify vulnerabilities, resolve them before delivery, and continue addressing them throughout the product’s lifecycle. The scale of the challenge The ... » read more

New Approaches To Limit Cyberattacks On Hardware
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

The number and value of cyberattacks on semiconductors is rising, but new approaches to designing and packaging chips could put a significant dent in those figures. Semiconductor-related cybersecurity attacks have multiplied more than six times since 2022, according to a report by cyber intelligence firm CloudSEK. These attacks have cost the semiconductor industry an estimated $1.05 billion ... » read more

Network Security For AI/HPC: From MACsec/IPsec Towards Ultra Ethernet
By Maxim Demchenko - 04 Sep, 2025 - Comments: 0

The modern world is increasingly a digital one that encompasses the realm of electronic devices, the internet, and online platforms. This world is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and shaped by how humans interact with digital technologies. The key element of a digital world is information that needs to be collected, stored and processed in vast quantities. For many ... » read more

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