Abstract: Examples described herein relate to an apparatus comprising: multiple processors and circuitry coupled to the multiple processors, wherein at least one of the multiple processors comprises multiple cores and wherein the circuitry is to provide the multiple processors with access to at least two firmware Trusted Platform Module (TPM) instances. At least two firmware TPM instances of the firmware TPM instances is to apply cryptography to store information for platform authentication and wherein the information for platform authentication comprises one or more of: user credentials, passwords, certificates, encryption keys, shared secrets, state information, or hash data.

Abstract: A non-oriented optical character recognition device and method for locating and reading identification markings on silicon wafers positioned in any orientation without having to physically manipulate the silicon wafer.