Samsung Begins Mass Production of First Exynos-Branded IoT Chip

Samsung began mass production of its first Exynos-branded IoT solution, the Exynos i T200 processor, it announced Thursday. The chip is built on a low-power 28-nanometer High-K Metal Gate process and includes 802.11b/g/n single-band Wi-Fi connectivity, said the company. It has Wi-Fi Alliance and Microsoft Azure certification and natively supports the IoTivity protocol from the Open Connectivity Foundation, Samsung said. For security and privacy, the i T200 uses a separate security management hardware block and secure data storage and device authentication management that doesn’t require a key to be fused on silicon, it said. The design is said to provide a higher level of security compared with conventional one-time programmable-based solutions.