In 2021, Google and Antmicro introduced a platform for testing DRAM memory chips against the unfortunate side effect of the physical shrinking of memory chips—the Rowhammer vulnerability. The platform was developed to propose a radical improvement over the “security through obscurity” approach that was predominant in the industry; as both Antmicro and Google believe that the open source approach to mitigating security threats is a way towards accelerating developments in the field.
