Via's security-on-a-chip to debut at Computex

LITTLE CHIP SHOP, Via says it will be showing off its integrated cryptographic security-on-a-chip technology at this year's Computex trade show in Taipei.

The CPU maker reckons it can wow punters with what its Veep of embedded technology, Daniel Wu, calls a "wholly new and more rational security infrastructure," by which we think he's referring to what are basically processor platforms with "security features embedded in their core."

Security has become a buzzword for chipmakers of late, with many of them scrambling to bung protective features into chips themselves. Via seems to have cracked it by sticking an in-built Advanced Cryptographic Engine on its Nano, C7 and Eden processors.

Via also says it will be showing off its recently announced Pico-ITXe and Em-ITX motherboard form factors as well as its IPRO VP7710 panel PC for kiosk, POI and HMI applications. µ