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Microprocessor designers realize security must be a primary concern

  • Written by Mark Hempstead, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Are microchips as secure as you think they should be?Yevhenii Kuchynskyi/Shutterstock.com

Computers’ amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological development and innovation in microprocessor design. Under constant pressure to extract more...

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