When does a cyber security problem become a physical security problem? Or stated differently, when do semiconductors have to have built-in tamper detectors?

CHANDLER, Ariz., Microchip Technology announced a new family of Terabit-scale Ethernet PHYs (physical layer), the META-DX2+, designed to provide OEMs the ability to double router and switch system capacities with 112G PAM4 connectivity for 800G ports, and support for encryption and Class C/D precision timing.

Microchip Technology achieved the first qualification milestone with its RT PolarFire FPGA, enabling designers to begin assembling spaceflight systems that take advantage of this FPGA's computing and connectivity throughput and its lower power consumption and immunity to configuration Single Event Upsets (SEUs) compared to SRAM-based FPGAs.

Microchip Technology announced it has expanded its portfolio of microprocessors system-on-modules (SOMs) with the SAM9X60D1G-SOM ARM926EJ-S-based embedded MPU running up to 600 MHz.

Microchip Technology announced the expansion of its serial-attached memory controller portfolio with the new SMC 2000 series of Compute Express Link (CXL) based Smart Memory Controllers that enable CPUs, GPUs and SoCs to utilize CXL interfaces to connect either DDR4 or DDR5 memory.

I have done lots of these Embedded Executive podcasts, a few hundred in fact. This particular podcast goes in a direction I have never gone before, and involves the mafia (yes, you read that correctly).

Microchip Technology announced the maXTouch Knob on Display (KoD) controller as the first automotive-grade touchscreen controller family to natively support the detection and reporting of capacitive rotary encoders, as well as mechanical switches on top of a touch panel.