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Silicon Labs has announced its latest Bluetooth Low Energy SoC, the BG2B — promising its lowest-power BLE part yet, without sacrificing features like Bluetooth Channel Sounding and integrated security enclave.

SiLabs Unveils the BG2B Bluetooth 6 Low Energy System-on-Chip — Its Lowest-Power Series 2 Part Yet

New chip includes an Arm Cortex-M33F core, a power-saving architecture, and full support for new Bluetooth features like Channel Sounding.

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NXP has announced a new Wi-Fi 6 and BLE communications module targeting low-power IoT devices — and featuring an integrated Arm Cortex-M33 core to act as a dedicated communications coprocessor or take on a dual-role for hardware control itself: the RW610FML.

NXP Announces Its Latest Low-Power IoT Wi-Fi 6 and BLE Microcontroller Module: The RW610FML

Part is in pre-production now, offering 114Mb/s and 2Mb/s data rates on Wi-Fi and BLE respectively plus a 260MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core.

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Attendees at DEF CON 34, to be held this week in Las Vegas, are going to find something very special on their badge: Andrew "bunnie" Huang's Baochip-x1, a "mostly-open" chip designed to be transparent and understandable — to the point of being able to inspect its layout under infrared light.

The DEF CON 34 Badge Packs a Surprise: Andrew "bunnie" Huang's "Mostly-Open" Baochip-x1

27,000 Baochip-x1 badges, which include a removable camera module, to be distributed at the event.

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