Claudia Natanson, chair of the UK's new Cyber Security Council, says she wants to change the way her country feels about cybersecurity, removing it from the technology stack. Natanson says security is a business problem, meaning "you have to work across functions, influence and educate, because security is actually about hearts and minds."

Morgan Stanley, an investment banker that does business in more than 40 countries, says information about clients was taken in the Accellion hack. The incident also involved Accellion client Guidehouse, which provides services to Morgan Stanley's StockPlan Connect clients.

Digital transformation is a "monumental undertaking" that's likely destined to languish, writes Neil Raden of Hired Brains Research. Raden notes that it isn't necessary to have a visionary at the head of the project but that overall, "you need a bunch of them" involved.

The US Senate's approval of the US Innovation and Competition Act will benefit a wide variety of microchip companies, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest silicon foundry by revenue, Fitch Ratings notes. The US House of Representatives has yet to vote on the bill, while TSMC reports its June revenue reached $5.29 billion, increasing more than 32% from the month of May.

Cirrus Logic agreed to acquire Lion Semiconductor, a provider of microchip intellectual property, for $335 million in cash. "The acquisition of Lion Semiconductor adds further momentum to our strategy of applying our mixed-signal expertise to new markets and driving growth through innovation in areas such as power," Cirrus Logic President and CEO John Forsyth said in a statement.

Power delivery networks are a necessary element in chip designs, yet they can cause more trouble than they're worth, Brian Bailey writes. "Modern compute-systems exhibit peak currents that have been steadily trending upwards due to reliance upon specialized execution and reduced efficiency gains through technology-scaling," says Shidhartha Das of Arm, adding, "This makes the design of PDNs a formidable challenge in modern compute-systems."

Commate Computer's LE-370 single-board computer, meant for embedded industrial systems and computer vision, among other artificial intelligence applications, combines Intel’s Tiger Lake UP3 platform and Intel Iris Xe graphics in a form factor the size of a floppy-disk drive, scarcely larger than the Raspberry Pi 4 SBC, this analysis notes. The computer is based on the 11th-generation Core i7 processor, or can be built with a dual-core Celeron chip.

Institute of Microelectronics researchers report that the Agency for Science, Technology and Research came up with the capability to stack four wafers together using a multi-wafer fusion bonding process and through-silicon via technology. IME’s Kawano Masaya says, "This development will mean new business opportunities with its low-cost 3D-DRAM and manufacturing, for device manufacturers, equipment suppliers, and material suppliers."

Chip designs can achieve one-spin manufacturing with the use of verification maturity technology, Harry Foster of Siemens EDA writes. "We did find an interesting correlation between the improvement of reduced functional flaws contributing to non-trivial bug escapes and the maturing of FPGA projects' functional verification processes," he concludes.

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen developed an algorithm that lowers server overload by gathering content locally. The team says the model requires less energy than current algorithms and could reduce the carbon footprint of information technology, which currently equals that of aviation.