Legislating IoT Safety | TSMC in AZ: Fab or Vaporfab? | Remembering Lucky Lindy

Legislation is beginning to be enacted around the world to protect data privacy. The issues are: what data is collected about you, and who has access to it? The answers have ramifications for everything from our smartphones to communications network architectures. Jack Ogawa is senior director of embedded security products at Cypress Semiconductor. We talk with Jack about the legislation that's popping up, and how the electronics industry is responding. Also, TSMC, the most successful IC foundry in the world, is based in Taiwan, and it just announced it may build a new fab in the US. This could be tremendously important for many reasons; we discuss why.

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