
Yocto Project 2021 – A Year in Review (italian translation)
Despite the challenges the pandemic has thrown our way, the Yocto Project team is very happy about the progress accomplished last year! Many thanks to everyone from the Yocto Project membership and community!

AMD announces CPUs with Italian names: Bergamo has 128 cores
AMD announces the new CPU names: Bergamo with the name of our city!
AMD Genoa disclosures are that the chip will hit 96 Zen 4 cores and AMD Bergamo is going to be the cloud variant.

Yocto Project 2.7 support for MX6 Engicam boards
Due to a very frequent requests for an updated version we decided to provide an unofficial Yocto Project 2.7 'warrior' setup system for Engicam iMX6 boards family.

Yocto Project Support Recently Added for AAEON Boxers
AAEON Europe has officially released support on the latest Yocto 3.1 Dunfell on AAEON AI embedded box PC, Boxer-8220AI, BOXER-8221AI, BOXER-8250AI, and BOXER-8251AI, powered by NVIDIA. Software services are provided in conjunction with AAEON’s software partners, such as KOAN, to provide customization, integration, and support for Yocto Project on AAEON BOXER-8200 series.

Yocto Project new features survey
Yocto Project can nowadays be considered the 'de facto' standard among the automated generation systems of embedded linux distributions.
Experienced users appreciate the features offered by Yocto Project and its complete customization that allows to adapt it to any specific requirement.
However, from the beginner's point of view, the situation is a bit more complicated due to the Yocto Project's particularly steep learning curve.
The tools that can support the development with Yocto Project are Toaster, that allow the configuration of the builds through a web interface, and the 'extended SDK' (eSDK), based on Devtool which allows the system to be tuned or extended without editing configuration files.

Secure Boot and Chain of Trust
Ensure your device is not running tampered software by verifying its authenticity before execution. Establish software authenticity all the way from the bootloader to user applications. Our secure boot services help implement:
Verified bootloader (NXP i.MX / QorIQ, Qualcomm Snapdragon, TI Sitara, Atmel SAMA5, Xilinx Zynq and more)
Kernel verification (FIT image, SoC specific mechanisms)
Root filesystem verification (dm-verity, IMA/EVM, FIT image)
Filesystem cryptography, Filesystem-level encryption (dm-crypt)

Credito d’imposta per spese di formazione 2018
Con legge n. 205 del 27.12.2017 (meglio conosciuta come Legge di Bilancio 2018) è stato introdotto un nuovo incentivo consistente nell’assegnazione di un credito d’imposta pari al 40% per le imprese che investono in formazione del personale, calcolato sul costo del personale occupato in attività di formazione.