lowRISC Acquires NewAE Technology
June 2, 2022
lowRISC C.I.C., the open-source silicon design organization behind the OpenTitan project, has acquired NewAE Technology, Inc., maker of the ChipWhisperer hardware security analysis toolchain. The acquisition brings NewAE's side-channel power analysis and fault-injection tools into the OpenTitan ecosystem to strengthen silicon root-of-trust security testing and open-source hardware hardening.
- Buyers
- lowRISC C.I.C.
- Targets
- NewAE Technology, Inc.
- Industry
- Cybersecurity
- Location
- Nova Scotia, Canada
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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