Warning: Nomenclature overload. Flat-pack is already a thing. http://www.ti.com/packaging/docs/searchtipackages.tsp?packageName=CFP

That’s not the way it works. First you go after the small fish that cannot defend themselves then you use those victories to support your claims against the bigger fish.

Impressive article and systems noted too. The Chinese issue reminds me of them owning buildings we lease out to Federal employees… yeah… that is more proven. A stock exchange now too.

Yang and Li's PUF provides a leap in reliability by generating two unique fingerprints for each PUF. This "zero-overhead" method uses the same PUF components to make both keys and does not require extra area and latency because of an innovative design feature that also allows their PUF to be about 15 times more energy efficient than previously published versions.

Boulder says the three additional EQ curves provide users the ability to accurately playback records made before 1954. 

Weird an I always thought it was the other way around that WorldSemi was the first with those LEDs. For those who who are on about the clock signal on the APA102, there are also the APA104 that are the same as the WS2812 and are actually used primarily now by Adafruit for NeoPixel products instead of the WS2812 simply because they perform a lot better.

As described in Part 2, this new SiP technology presents new challenges. Some challenges, such as lack of flexibility and inability to customize, are technical. Other challenges, like the need to be high volume to be viable in the IC manufacturing process, are economic. While there’s a desire to integrate more functional blocks into the system, doing so compromises system flexibility. The greater the number of functional blocks, the less flexible the SiP becomes, which means lower volume, application specific and higher cost, making integration nonviable.

I feel like everyone here is missing the point: that the frequencies output are independent from each other, and so any attempt to run them as a single program (via clever nop tricks and unrolled loops, pre-loading values, etc) are NOT going to work. The frequencies of C and C# do not play nicely together. You will get jitter and weird edge-cases unless your platform is insanely fast, your FLASH memory is planet-sized, and so on.

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To pull off this secret surveillance, the exploit code must run on the system under attack, specifically on the same CPU core as the process you want to pry into. That means it can't be used to eavesdrop on software remotely, or easily on the same host, but it could be useful for determined miscreants and snoops who have managed to infiltrate someone else's computer. You basically have to already be able to run your own evil code on a machine in order to PortSmash it.

This will be, it is claimed, Arm's first-ever simultaneous multithreaded CPU core. As in, each core can run two separate threads at the same time, just like Intel's Hyper-Threading feature, and similar hardware threading in AMD and MIPS processors.