News
StarChip and Cortus announce a strategic partnership to deliver Secure Solutions for the IoT, M2M and Industry 4.0 markets
November 2016 by Marc Jacob
StarChip, a dynamic semiconductor company (subsidiary of Safran Identity & Security), and Cortus announced a new strategic collaboration to deliver secure solutions for the Internet of Things, Machine to Machine and Industry 4.0 markets. This partnership will combine StarChip‘s expertise in hardware security with Cortus’s strong competency in developing advanced low powered 32-bit processors to provide root of trust solutions for today’s interconnected world facing complex security threats.
After 6 years of fruitful collaboration with proven track records of launching successfully new products for telecom and payment applications and having shipped more than 800 million parts to the smart card market, StarChip and Cortus now have in common focus IoT, M2M and Industry 4.0 fast growing markets.
Joining their forces, StarChip and Cortus have already developed several M2M hardware devices shipped in high volumes and recently brought to the market the first product of StarChip’s new IoT Secure Controllers family. This certified EMVCo* device is compact and easy-to-integrate as a companion chip in any sensor, device, or gateway.
StarChip and Cortus will capitalize on their unique capabilities to deliver a full range of embedded security solutions for connecting objects, devices and machines. The objective of both companies is to deliver a set of root of trust solutions adapted to many use cases of the IoT applications, as but not limited to, eSIM, Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) and Know Your Customer (KYC) authentications.
*EMVCo is an organization which facilitates worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions.
StarChip®, a subsidiary of Safran Identity & Security, delivers root of trust products to build digital connected solutions and services. Our Secure Elements are based on state-of-the-art, flash-based 32-bit architectures. They are designed to offer maximum integration, providing support for embedded, innovative security technologies, analog functionality, connectivity and control interfaces. The result is a flexible and secure set of solutions that can easily meet the requirements of a wide variety of markets, including smart card, secure IoT, mobile, consumer, and several industrial applications.
