<span style='color:red'>Blockchain</span>-Driven Boom Helps Lift Taiwan’s Semiconductor Sector
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Blockchain-Driven Boom Helps Lift Taiwan’s Semiconductor Sector

Computing power-hungry technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous driving, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and cryptocurrency mining are spurring demand in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, TechNode reports.Data from Taiwan’s finance ministry showed that export jumped to a record $30 billion in March alone, which represents an increase of 16.7%. This growth was “driven by strong demand for high-performance chips, cryptocurrency mining, and artificial intelligence applications.”Randy Abrams, who heads regional semiconductors research at Credit Suisse, commented:“TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is generating about 6-7% of its sales from the ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) from customers like Bitmain and also some of the GPUs being used from AMD and NVIDIA.”TSMC is the biggest chip foundry in the world, with a more than 55% share of global chip production. The boom in the crypto mining space has been a massive driver of profits for the company: it reported $8.46 billion in first-quarter earnings this year "mainly driven by strong demand from high-performance computing such as cryptocurrency mining and increases from both automotive and IoT.” It added that the high demand from crypto mining had offset weaker smartphone sales.However, TSMC issued a revised revenue forecast for the rest of 2018, citing uncertainty in digital mining demand. The company modified its forecast from growth of between 10% and 15% to a more conservative 10%.Abrams continued:“TSMC does not want to invest in much capacity that is unable to be converted to other uses. The market still needs to mature and have more certainty before more suppliers dedicate or invest in specific capacity for mining.”Crypto mining pushes GPU prices upAn independent analysis by Gamespot has shown that GPU prices have risen along with the growth of crypto mining. The cost has more than doubled, going from $500 to over $1,000 per chip.An Nvidia GeForce GTX, 1080 Ti with an MSRP (manufacturer suggested retail price) of $700 currently retails for $1,350, while AMD's Radeon RX Vega 64 sells for $1,500, three times its MSRP of $500.
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Experts Disdain <span style='color:red'>Blockchain</span> in Spain
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Experts Disdain Blockchain in Spain

　　BARCELONA — “Trust” and “security” were the two words most oft uttered during a discussion here Monday at the Mobile World Congress entitled “IoT and the Security Blockchain,” but they were spoken — for the most part — either wishfully or in tones of outright sarcasm.　　The explosion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, said moderator Ian Hughes, an IoT analyst for 451 Research, “has created a massive ballooning of risk” to the security of systems dependent on Internet communications.　　“The proliferation of IoT devices,” said Rashni Misra, Microsoft’s general manager for IoT and AI solutions, “has basically opened a new surface for attack, to an extraordinary degree.”　　The message offered by a parade of experts at the Mobile World session was that security is finally an issue that big companies are taking seriously, but that the solutions today are more theoretical than actual, and they will require a measure of mutual trust (socialism) unusual among high-tech competitors (capitalists).　　However, none of the experts was sanguine about the exclusively software approach, such as blockchains, which originally emerged as a decentralized transaction ledger for the crypto-currency Bitcoin. “You just don’t base all your security in software,” said analyst Seshu Madhavapeddy, Qualcomm’s vice president of IoT product management.　　Speaking more positively on the subject, Paul Williamson, Arm’s vice president for IoT device IPs, touted IoT’s “huge potential to change our world” and described measures, specifically Arm’s “ground-up” hardware solution called Platform Security Architecture.　　But Williamson admitted that today, IoT is a “wild West” landscape better described as the “insecurity of things.” Fellow speaker Erin Linch, vice president of corporate development at Syniverse, expanded on this theme, noting that in any given second, traffic on the public Internet includes 24,000 gigs of data, 62,000 Google searches and 2.6 million emails — each item a potential target for cyberattack.　　Williamson noted that danger no longer applies to devices when they are launched. “We have to think about how devices can be managed throughout their lives in this world of IoT,” he said.　　Linch, of Syniverse, emphasized the potential impact of a security breach in massive systems, like high-speed trains and hospital networks, but Jaya Baloo, chief information security officer at KPN Telecom, characterizing her company as a “customer” of security systems, took the issue down to the smallest devices.　　She cited the case of Fitbit users in Somalia. Their activities were monitored and fed to the Internet by a built-in monitoring system that kept track of data like mileage run and heart-rate levels. By tuning in to the network and finding an unusual concentration of Fitbit data emanating from a remote region in East Africa, unauthorized observers correctly determined that this fitness cluster, a lot of people working out, was the location of what had been a secret military base.　　Baloo noted that this breach was not a bug, nor did it require a sophisticated hack. It was a flaw intentionally built in by its designers, a “sharing” feature. “People are designing devices who don’t know enough to anticipate bugs,” lamented Baloo.　　Among solutions suggested during the Mobile World session was a Blockchain IoT Registry, described by Anoop Nannra, chairman at Cisco of the Trusted IoT Alliance and head of its Blockchain Initiatives. He said each IoT system — such as drug delivery by drone — could be secured by “smart contracts that define a common model for IoT devices in a registry.”　　He laid out a program, incorporating both hardware and software protections, for each IoT “asset” — a “smart truck,” for example — that would include a) registration, b) verification, c) transfer security, d) a secure ledger system and e) a digital wallet to pay for and get paid for services.　　But this is where, said Baloo, the truck hits the road. Proposing standards, registries, alliances and trust are the easy part of Internet security, especially in the industrial realm. “We have failed at everything, at every single level,” she said. “The standards are there, but our implementation of them sucks. There’s no other way to put it.”　　She offered another real-world example, in which high-tech medical devices were carefully and strictly registered to prevent a security breach. But the machines then rejected the remote software updates that they needed. It seems that if the device was opened to allow the new software, the security protocol would rescind the certification that was necessary to permit its use.　　Baloo’s own company hired a team of white-hat hackers to attack its just-finished, state-of-the-art security system. The hackers discovered a flaw in the protocol standard that rendered the system vulnerable and in need of massive repairs. She added that most companies have neither the resources nor the wits to hire teams of hackers to test security quite so intensely.　　The bottom line, which was left to Baloo, the final speaker, is that IoT security has a long way to go. “Defense in depth actually requires us to do just that,” she said. “Trust, but always be in a position to verify.”
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Sensors, <span style='color:red'>Blockchain</span>s Meet Tomatoes
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Sensors, Blockchains Meet Tomatoes

　　When Amazon announced the acquisition of Whole Foods last month, Alice Waters, an American chef and restaurateur, defined its significance as a chance for Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, to seize the moment and launch a food revolution.　　Immediately after the announcement, Waters tweeted to Bezos: “…You have an unprecedented opportunity to change our food system overnight: It’s time to demand that produce comes from farmers who are taking care of the land…”　　The basic elements of technology that can make Waters’ locavore dreams already exist. But none of the big grocers today have yet seized the reins.　　Since 2015, however, on a much smaller scale, Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has been on a journey to learn, improve, and instrument Internet of Things (IoT) related to the food industries. In search of fresh, local, and sustainable tomatoes that actually taste good in the Boston area, ADI initiated a pilot project called the “Internet of Tomatoes,” involving local farmers, data scientists, and universities. ADI also recruited technology partners such as Consumer Physics, developer of a molecular sensing device, and ripe.io, a startup that designs custom blockchains for various industries, including agriculture.　　The idea behind the Internet of Tomatoes is to build a sensors-to-cloud platform that turns captured data into useful intelligence for farmers, while a blockchain offers a transparent, distributed ledger that can be shared by all participants in the ecosystem. By monitoring and tracking tomatoes from seed to table based on a common platform using common tools, local farmers, packers, distributors, trucking companies, grocers, supermarkets, restauranteurs, and consumers can now put on the table tomatoes that taste like tomatoes — whose quality, pedigree, and provenance is verified and validated by trusted data.　　Mike Murray, general manager of ADI’s industrial sensing business, told EE Times, “We are putting the technology in the hands of family farmers so that they can create better outcomes.”　　“Few consumers trust their food these days,” said Raja Ramachandran, CEO at ripe.io. Few people know where produce actually comes from, how it was grown, and how good it might taste. In his opinion, technology could put “trust” back into the food supply chain and “redefine the relationship that consumers have with food.”　　For example, people often talk about fresh, local, and sustainable foods. Philip Harris, President of ripe.io, asked, “But what does it mean? How local is local? Did it come from a farm 200 miles away or from a store you just bought it at?”　　Harris said, “The food supply chain is a very fragmented ecosystem.” By capturing data and sharing it among various players, “data allows buyers’ and consumers’ questions to be answered and helps verify the data.”　　Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition will surely trigger retail evolution on the local level, said Ramachandran. Leveraging Amazon’s technology, Whole Foods could improve shoppers’ choice and convenience. Meanwhile, retailers might be able to learn consumer tastes and preferences on a much more personal level, he explained.
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