Nvidia licenses Rambus' DPA tech for side-channel data leak prevention
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Most gerbils are familiar with the Rambus name from the ill-fated RDRAM popular back in the Pentium 4 days. Although the company appeared to vanish from the consumer space, it continued on to offer its services to high-flying customers like Boeing. One of Rambus' products series is called DPA Countermeasures (standing for Differential Power Analysis), a suite of side-channel attack prevention solutions. Now, Nvidia has licensed that technology for its own wares.
Nvidia didn't specify what it's using Rambus' DPA for, but the press release mentions "artificial intelligence, autonomous cars, virtual reality and professional visualization." ...