<ul><li>MIT engineers, in collaboration with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, have developed a new chip to enhance smartphone data security.</li><li>The chip protects against cyber threats while enabling efficient operation of large AI models on devices.</li><li>It uses digital in-memory compute (IMC) to perform computations within the device's memory, reducing data transfers and security risks.</li><li>The chip employs innovative security measures, such as random data segmentation, lightweight encryption, and physically unclonable function-based encryption keys.</li></ul>

MIT engineers develop advanced security chip to protect smartphone data

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