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IoT watchIt is hard to attend any sort of meeting to do with semiconductors without hearing about the Internet of Things (IoT), and probably the hottest subtopic is IoT security. Some devices will contain our health data, some are dangerous. Even the apocryphal internet-enabled toaster could potentially burn down your house. The second day of this year's EDPS in Monterey was completely dedicated to semiconductor security.

A couple of weeks ago, the GSA held their Silicon Summit and one of the topics was securing the IoT. This took the form of a panel session moderated by Venky Anant of McKinsey. The panelists were Nuri Dagdeviren from Microchip (actually from Atmel that Microchip acquired), Paul Kocher from Rambus (the cryptography part, not the memory part), Sami Nassar from NXP, and Volker Politz from Imagination.