IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled IBM z16, IBM's next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator -- delivering latency-optimized inferencing. This innovation is designed to enable clients to analyze real-time transactions, at scale -- for mission-critical workloads such as credit card, healthcare and financial transactions. Building on IBM's history of security leadership, IBM z16 also is specifically designed to help protect against near-future threats that might be used to crack today's encryption technologies. IBM innovations, including the IBM z16, have formed the technology backbone of the global economy for decades. Today's modern IBM mainframe is central to hybrid cloud environments, valued by two-thirds of the Fortune 100, 45 of the world's top 50 banks, 8 of the top 10 insurers, 7 of the top 10 global retailers and 8 out of the top 10 telcos as a highly secured platform for running their most mission-critical workloads.

As IoT technology continues to make our lives more comfortable through greater intelligence enabled by networking smart devices, it becomes increasingly important to protect the information stored and transmitted by these devices. Embedded MCUs are at the core of IoT-based products, and selecting the right MCU is key to meeting the present and future needs of your customers. An MCU designed for IoT applications needs to have sufficient processing capabilities, hardware-based security, and software algorithms to provide a safe and secure solution. Secure MCUs should offer multiple levels of security elements to support various security algorithms like Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Data Encryption Standard (DES), and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA). The MCU needs to provide a complete chain of security, secure boot process, hardware-based root of trust, true random number generation functionality in hardware, and user application code authentication, among other capabilities.