Forrester Research predicts that the current global chip shortage, which reared its head early this year, will inhibit IoT market growth by 10% to 15% in 2022, anticipating that the problem won’t be resolved until mid-2023. “Many businesses and consumer products will struggle with the availability and price increases through 2022. IoT devices will feel … Read more
Bonnie Glaser has spent decades working on issues related to Asia-Pacific geopolitics and US policy. She is managing director of the German Marshall Fund’s Indo-Pacific programme, a non-resident fellow with the Lowy Institute, a senior associate with the Pacific Forum, and co-author of US-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? This interview first … Read more
A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive US manufacturing of semiconductors and reduce the country’s reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will “sharply increase production” of semiconductors in the United States. But it will do so at a high cost and might not deliver the best bang for the … Read more
Security researchers have identified a vulnerability in AMD processors that they have dubbed badRAM and which could allow threat actors with physical access to cloud computing environments to bypass encryption protections, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. The flaw circumvents AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization, which encrypts virtual machine memory to … Read more
The US spared China’s top producer of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) from its latest round of chip export restrictions because of opposition from Japan, according to sources. The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security on Monday imposed an export ban on China over 24 types of chipmaking equipment and three categories of software … Read more
