The U.S. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Program Agency) decided to sponsor the development of a new super chip called Morpheus. The processor's inventors claimed that this new hardware is unhackable since it can make your vulnerable software into a puzzle.
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This means that this new processor can make your vulnerable system virtually impossible to breach. If this is true, the new Morpheus chipset can really fend off dangerous hackers and other cybercriminals.
Previously, various experts and reliable sources reported that different hackers targeted some giant U.S. agencies and companies. With the development of the Morpheus chipset, this issue could be solved and prevented.
On the other hand, here's why the U.S. DARPA agency decided to sponsor this new super processor.
U.S. DARPA's Sponsors Morpheus Chipset
According to Science Alert's latest report, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Program Agency wants to design a more secured processor that could greatly help vulnerable software and systems.
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This is the main reason why it decided to invest or sponsor the new Morpheus processor.
To show the public how efficient this new super chip is, IEEE Spectrum published a report saying that the developers invited around 580 cybersecurity experts to breach the new hardware. After trying to hack it for more than 13,000 hours, they all failed.
To give you more idea, the new Morpheus processor is a piece of computer hardware that runs software programs. It has the potential to protect any software running on it from attack since it also underlies all software systems.
Other Details of Morpheus
The University of Michigan's researchers started working on the new Morpheus chipset back in 2019. This new chip has a microarchitecture, which could enable execution of the instruction set and more.
As of the moment, the developer team hasn't confirmed if it will offer the new chipset to other giant tech companies such as Apple, Samsung, or Google.
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