Techworld Article: Hardware Security Trend Of Semiconductor Companies

Since the IoT (Internet of Things) has been introduced, the number of edge and node devices has increased rapidly. IoT devices are growing at a faster pace than traditional devices such as desktops and mobile devices. According to IC Insight, the number of connected IOT devices will grow by 14-16% annually, including 2.3 billion in 2017, 2.6 billion in 2018, and 3 billion in 2019, up to about 4 billion by 2021.
5G, Machine Learning, and IoT convergence is at the forefront of computing, which means embedded developers need rich features for the Linux-based operating system as well as key security and reliability requirements. Traditional System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), which combine reconfigurable hardware and Linux support processing power into a single chip, provide the right device for customization, but with high power consumption, this is a lack of flexibility, and costly processing architecture.
To address this, Microchip Technology has introduced the industry’s lowest power, mid-range PolarFire FPGA family, through its subsidiary, Microsemi, to the open RISC-V ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) based on a microprocessor subsystem in a new class of SoC FPGA architectures.
 
To read more, please visit: http://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=82264. Please note that the original article is in Korean.