May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Sir Hossein Yassale from Imagination talked about changes in the industry and markets, driven by trends in computer vision, security, virtual and augmented realities, connectivity, and application portability. Mostly functions interact with people leading to changes in existing markets while increasing and changing them. Some of the emerging…
April 20, 2015, Trusted Compute Group, San Francisco—A panel moderated by Rich Nass of Open Systems Media and comprised of panelists Stacey Cannady from Cisco, Chuck Benson from the University of Washington, and Darin Anderson from Cyber United looked at security in the Internet of things (IoT). The fundamental issue is that the billions of…
March 2015 – At the Santa Clara Wearables Techcon, the event addressed both hardware and software designers for the latest wearables products. These include platform devices such as the Apple Watch & Samsung Gear smart watches and customer purpose wearables. These custom purpose wearables are mostly targeted towards fitness applications at this time, but the…
October 2014 – Maxim Integrated held an AE and press demo event to show off their new kits for the for the Internet of Things (IoT) product area. These new kits were targeted at wellness and medical electronics as well as standard industrial control. The wellness products had the highlight of the second-generation FIT2 which…
October 2014 – At ARM Techcon in Santa Clara, Micrium was showing their new end-to-end platform for the IoT marketplace called Spectrum. This package is a collection of the embedded software modules protocol stacks, and cloud services to help with applications for Internet of Things (IoT) device development. Unlike most silicon vendor provided tools the…
September 2014 – At IDF in San Francisco, the keynote added in the application space and shifting content/use that is being driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor technologies. These devices are found in the terms wearable, smart home, connected devices and appliances, and mobile device control. At the keynote, they were showing…
August 2014 – The diversity of applications in the marketplace for the Internet of Things (IoT) has caused the development world to start from multiple places in order to bring products in the space to market. Companies are starting at the cloud level, app level, sensor level, communication level and processor level to build a…
May 7, 2014, Internet of Things Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Peter McGuinness from Imagination Technologies talked about scaling processors in heterogeneous platforms to the app and performance requirements. This approach to systems development allows for more flexibility and more optimal power, performance, and cost structures. Developing devices for the IoT must address the high likelihood…
May 7, 2014, Internet of Things Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Tareq Bustami from Freescale Semiconductor described the convergence of networking technologies for IoT. The changes in architectures and technologies will allow data to move across many platforms and communications networks with minimal friction. The IoT can be shown to be associated with many network concepts from…
May 7, 2014, Internet of Things Developers Conference, Santa Calara, CA—Kin-Yip Liu from Cavium talked about the bigger industry drivers for semiconductors. Of course, performance and power are at the top of the list, but integrated functionality is starting to matter. For example, in security functions, new issues are for transactions and access authorizations, especially…