By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-26 10:08:33 | Updated at 2024-11-26 12:34:50
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A Chinese state laboratory has unveiled what it says is a self-contained microcomputer that is 100 times more resistant to hackers than standard models.
State-owned Science and Technology Daily reported on Friday that Purple Mountain Laboratories released its hacker-resistant microcontroller unit (MCU) at an academic conference in Nanjing earlier this month.
An MCU is a microcomputer mounted on a single chip and is widely used in industries such as energy and transport to perform simple control tasks.
The developers said the new MCU – about the size of a US quarter – had three cores rather than one, allowing two to function normally if one was attacked, according to the report.
“This development marks the end of an era of vulnerable MCUs,” Wu Jiangxing, project lead and the lab’s chief scientist, was quoted as saying.
Since 2013, Wu has been looking at ways to incorporate security into chips from the beginning rather than adding them afterwards.
