SILICON BEAT - Nov 17 - The two tech giants are also creating three global "solutions labs" to help customers speed deployment of applications for the IoT, and three "discovery labs" where companies can experiment with and test IoT applications and devices.
MLC Smartwatch Technology
PROFESSIONAL PLANNER - Nov 10 - MLC On Track will allow customers to measure daily physical activity and health data using an Intel® Basis Peak fitness and sleep tracker. Customers will be rewarded for healthy behaviour, with a life insurance premium discount for the life of their insurance policy.
Honeywell And Intel's Prototype Of Personal Connected Safety Solution
MARKET WATCH - Nov 3 - The prototype for industrial workers and first responders would reduce workplace injury and improve productivity. The Honeywell Connected Worker solution includes a Mobile Hub that collects and provides sensor fusion, which refers to data collected from a variety of sensors on a worker that are compiled to provide a broader and more accurate picture of what that worker is experiencing.
Intel's IoT vision
SILICON BEAT - Nov 3 - Intel has announced a collection of new chips designed for IoT devices. The Quark D1000 and D2000, available now and by the end of the year, respectively, are standalone microcontrollers. The Quark SE system on a chip, which will be available in the first half of next year, includes gyroscopes, accelerometers and pattern matching software in addition to a microcontroller. Wind Rive rwill offer a pair of operating systems for IoT devices that will allow them to tap into the company's cloud-based platform.
Intel Buys Saffron AI
FORTUNE - Oct 26 - Saffron's software takes in a variety of data on a topic provided by the client and then parses similarities and relationships to "learn" about that topic. Saffron has purportedly created software that mimics human reasoning and memory that it applies to problems for clients as well as its own natural language processing that augments whatever vocabulary the client submits, since many professions have their own industry jargon.
BT, Intel Join Launch Of IoT Security Foundation
INFO SECURITY MAGAZINE - Sep 23 - The body of more than 30 firms is making its mission to vet internet-connected devices for vulnerabilities and flaws, and to encourage manufacturers to consider the security of connected devices at the hardware level. This is particularly important for businesses, because IoT devices connected to the corporate network offer ever more attack vectors via which to target organizations.
Intel’s Aggressive Push In IoT To Leverage Growth In The Market
TREFIS - Aug 25 - Learning from its short-shortsightedness in the smartphone market, Intel is determined to be one of the early entrants in IoT and has been aggressively investing to gain a wide footprint in the space. The research firm IoT Analytics has recently placed Intel at the head of the top 20 IoT. Intel is at the forefront of developing new generation low-power chips for connected IoT devices. In addition to introducing new platforms, the company has launched a number of products and initiatives in the past year with different fashion, fitness and lifestyle brands, to accelerate its presence in wearables.
Bionic Arm Produces Intel’s Vision Of Personalized Computing
THE TECH BULLETIN - Aug 19 - This Bionic Arm is produced by the Open Bionics Team who build with polymers with wavering levels of firmness. The part that attached to an amputee’s limb is made with a softer, more flexible material, while the hand and fingers are more rigid and firm. A band, with sensors and a custom board with Intel's Quark microprocessor, is attached to the wearer’s forearm. When the sensors detect muscle contractions in your forearm, the hands and fingers move accordingly.
Intel, 'Survivor' Producers Plan Show On Wearables
AFP - Aug 18 - Intel is jumping into reality TV with a competition pitting makers of wearables and smart connected consumer devices. America's Greatest Makers," due to premiere in early 2016 across the Turner Broadcasting entertainment platform, teams Intel with "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett. Winners will take home a $1 million prize.
Fossil Unveils Trio Of Wearables At IDF 2015
UBER GIZMO - Aug 18 - Fossil has taken the wraps off three wearables, all of which are powered by Intel’s, and basically consist of a connected bracelet, a connected watch, and a smartwatch that runs on Android Wear.
Recon Instruments Acquired By Intel For $175M
TECH VIBES - Jun 17 - Recon has been quietly and successfully cornering the sport and outdoor wearable HUD market since its first product launch in 2010 and has raised $17M over 3 rounds from a combination of venture capital firms and technology companies. In 2012, Recon received $10M in Series A funding from Vanedge Capital and Kopin Corporation. In 2013, Intel Capital announced an investment followed by Motorola Solutions in 2014.
Intel Buys Altera For $16.7B
PC WORLD - Jun 3 - Intel plans to offer Altera’s FPGA products with its Xeon processors as “highly customized, integrated products” and to improve Altera’s products by applying Intel’s design and manufacturing processes to them.
The Bear Case For Wearable Health Technology
THE MOTLEY FOOL - May 24 - While the downsides of wearable medical devices (including: Rising health premiums, Intentional device tampering, Privacy problems) are real, the benefits they bring will likely outpace their potential risks. Intel says that wearables and implantable medical devices could save $63 billion in health care costs over the next 15 years and reduce hospital equipment costs by 15% to 30%.
Intel’s Basis Unveils New Peak Titanium Edition
GIZBOT - May 19 - The limited edition Titanium Peak's ($300) housing is made of satin finish Grade II titanium and is equipped to resist everyday wear and tear.
Intel Gifts VA 1,000 Basis Wearables
MOBIHEALTH NEWS - May 12 - The VA Boston Healthcare System will launch a pilot using the Basis Peak to evaluate the effect of a drug on veterans’ sleep habits and for the VA’s Move! weight management program.
Intel Shuffles Wearables Chief Mike Bell Off The Table
READWRITE - Apr 29 - The $12B corporation consolidated several of its departments—like Intel Labs, Perceptual Computing, and the new devices group—into a single, larger team called the New Technology group, run under Senior Vice President Joshua Walden. No details have emerged about whether Bell will continue working with the new devices group somehow, or get shuttled to another department.
LVMH To Begin Selling TAG Heuer Smartwatch By November
BLOOMBERG - Apr 28 - TAG Heuer will start selling a smartwatch for about $1,400 in October or November as the brand becomes Apple Inc.’s biggest Swiss competitor for connected timepieces. TAG Heuer formed alliances with Google Inc. and Intel Corp. to develop the watch, the company said last month.
by Matthew Martin
See full article at Bloomberg
Intel Preps Atom x3 For IoT, Wearables
EET INDIA - Apr 13 - The purpose-built IoT versions revealed to Chinese developers have built-in 3G and LTE baseband and will be ruggedised for affordable, outdoor, long-range sensor device networks beyond the range of what traditional WiFi-based networking solutions offer. The cores will be offered in extended -40°C to 80°C temperature versions and will come with 7 years of extended product lifecycle support.
Robot Spider Army Controlled With A Flick Of The Wrist
DAILY MAIL - Apr 8 - At the Intel forum in China, CEO Brian Krzanich revealed the demonstration to show off the firm's button sized computed and controller wristband. The robots were powered by Curie, a computer the size of a button developed by Intel.
Intel's Curie Chip Can Work With Wearables
THE MOTLEY FOOL - Mar 30 - Intel established a new IoT division last year, which houses its smallest SoCs (systems on chips). One of the IoT division's most fascinating products is Curie, a button-sized, ultra-low power module with a six-axis sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope. Curie has just 80KB of onboard SRAM and 384KB of flash storage, and lacks an application processor, wireless connectivity, or Wi-Fi. The only way to sync with Curie is via Bluetooth. Curie can't power full-featured smartwatches, but it could be installed in less demanding devices like fitness bands, medical monitors, and security tokens.
Subscribe
Consulting
Search
CEO Interviews
- Q&A With Linden Tibbets, CEO Of IFTTT, 2nd part
- Q&A With Linden Tibbets, CEO Of IFTTT, 1st part
- Q&A With Mark Gainey, CEO Of Strava
- Q&A With Niina Venho, CEO Of Moodmetric
- Q&A With Chaotic Moon Studios
- Q&A With Benjamin Hubert, Founder Of Layer
- Neuro-marketing Primer Part 2
- Neuro-marketing Primer Part 1
- All interviews