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Intel describes active countermeasures for physical attacks at CICC as part of a trend towards more adaptive IoT silicon.

Microsoft Azure aims to use royalty-free IP to build a more secure IoT and extend the reach of its cloud services.

Ceva has followed its IoT-oriented Ceva-X series of processor cores with a more powerful family that is designed to handle control and signal-processing algorithms using the same pipeline.

Minima Processor is working on the first processor cores that will be customized to use its timing-control technology to push supply voltages into the near-threshold zone.

EEMBC has released a benchmark and initial results that analyze peripheral performance on microcontrollers.

Oberon Microsystems has ported a set of low-overhead cryptographic codes suitable for Apple's HomeKit to the Cortus APS3RP 32bit processor core.

Security took center stage at the Embedded World show in Nürnberg this week, with a number of vendors launching software intended to help protect against hacks.

ARM has gone back to the 32bit realm for its latest Cortex-A processor core, aiming the device at a new generation of low-cost platforms inspired by the success of the Raspberry Pi as well as wearables.

CAST and SoC Solutions have teamed up to put together pre-integrated platforms, with designs that reach down into the 8bit space.

Benchmarking organization EEMBC has kicked off an effort to develop a set of performance tests for edge nodes for the Internet of Things (IoT).