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on Thursday November 30 2017, @09:35AM
from the whatever-will-they-do-with-the-one-billion-leftover-apples? dept.
from the whatever-will-they-do-with-the-one-billion-leftover-apples? dept.
From a Western Digital press release:
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today at the 7th RISC-V Workshop that the company intends to lead the industry transition toward open, purpose-built compute architectures. In his keynote address, Western Digital's Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink expressed the company's commitment to [...] transitioning its own consumption of processors – over one billion cores per year – to RISC-V.
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Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V
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Your step will soil many countries.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday November 30 2017, @08:48PM
The sanctums proposal satisfies remote computing and DRM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3EN0_g6yL4 [youtube.com]
There are recent attempts at formal verification: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rsinha/research/pubs/ccs2017.pdf [berkeley.edu]
It's basically a cleaned up SGX that could allow a per-machine key to be issued by the silicon manufacturers as a CA. But the enclave is isolated and can't access anything the OS hasn't allocated it.
The nice thing about this design is that, if you choose to, it will let you reject any enclave requests or just approve specific requests through the OS. While, at the same time, it has no persistent code running in the background that is outside your control as long as there aren't any enclaves running. This can also be verified easily by measuring power and/or thermal imaging the die while idling.
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