Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Texas Instruments And ARM Collaborate On Handheld Security
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 03:00 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nf/20040630/bs_nf/25666
"Texas Instruments and ARM are collaborating on embedded security designed to protect the growing amount of information transmitted by and stored on wireless devices -- addressing concerns of both carriers and end-users. TI will integrate ARM's TrustZone technology on its OMAP platform for wireless devices and in TCS chipsets by using the ARM1176JZF-STM core. TrustZone currently supports such mobile-device operating systems as Linux, Palm Symbian and Windows CE. It is integrated within the microprocessor core and extended into the system design, enabling on-chip memory protection."
I wonder if Intel will work with ARM to put this into the ARM based X-Scale processors, or if they have a similar hardware solution in the works? In any event, this is good news but still two years away.
"Texas Instruments and ARM are collaborating on embedded security designed to protect the growing amount of information transmitted by and stored on wireless devices -- addressing concerns of both carriers and end-users. TI will integrate ARM's TrustZone technology on its OMAP platform for wireless devices and in TCS chipsets by using the ARM1176JZF-STM core. TrustZone currently supports such mobile-device operating systems as Linux, Palm Symbian and Windows CE. It is integrated within the microprocessor core and extended into the system design, enabling on-chip memory protection."
I wonder if Intel will work with ARM to put this into the ARM based X-Scale processors, or if they have a similar hardware solution in the works? In any event, this is good news but still two years away.
