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Intel Buys Yogitech, Aims To Improve Safety of Autonomous Cars and IoT Systems (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Intel has acquired the Italian company Yogitech to improve upon Internet of Things (IoT) security and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Yogitech's flagship technology known as faultRobust is designed to keep circuits functional and prevent device failure. Since Intel provides chips for IoT devices, it makes sense for the company to be interested expanding that effort with Yogitech's technology. Intel's Atom and Quark chips are used in IoT devices, and it bundles hardware- and software- based security and networking layers in with those chips. The most obvious use for Yogitech's technology is with autonomous vehicles, where the circuitry can be used to reduce errors related to braking and identification of objects. It may also be used in industrial machines, where the chances of equipment hurting the process or a worker could be reduced.
According to Intel, 30 percent of the IoT market will require functional safety systems. Intel didn't comment how much they paid to buy the company.
Chips will be used to lock in dealer only service and that also means tires, oil changes, battery changes, light bulbs. But at least un like the apple car you can use your own wiper fluid.
They want to use Italians to make a car drive more safely?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Intel has deep pockets so when the hardware messes up they have the funds to pay out.
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Yeah no. That's illegal.
Not if we use the DMCA to lock people out.
magnussen/moss act says you are wrong.
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Intel's chips are simply too expensive to use in anything that isn't running Windows. This is already failed venture, just like their smartphone efforts.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Intel didn't comment how much they paid to buy the company.
Makes sense. The contract terms probably required payment in pic-a-nic baskets.
In 10 years, Intel will be what IBM is today.
CPUs have stagnated and Intel is reaching deeper and deeper into the high cost, no value segments of "integration" and "business solutions".
No one uses IME, McAfee, or the other half-baked, baked-in features of their business CPUs.
Regular servers run on Xeons but could easily switch to Opterons (or whatever AMD calls them now) and win on performance/$. They'd lose on performance per Watt, but that gap will shrink faster than Intel's fabrication processes.
HPC servers all run AMD/nVidia/custom shit.
Big Iron is locked up and will be until the end of time.
Phones and compute sticks and tablets and shit are ARM's territory, despite Intel's efforts.
The laptop/desktop segment is dwindling - especially in comparison to the other segments.
For a while they produced the only SSDs worth a damn, but today everyone just buys Samsung.
Intel is losing their fabrication edge in two ways. There's a physical wall ahead of them that they're approaching, and the competitors behind them are catching up as Intel is slowing down. For most uses, the "good enough" line was crossed a long ways back. Their engineering brain trust is in CPUs as well, when they need to be in GPUs or materials.
We've already seen the frantic hiring and buyouts with no direction.
The next decade will see more and more IBM-like behavior - less produced and more charged, reliance on licensing features instead of selling products, etc.
Unless we get a materials breakthrough that significantly changes our fabrication process or lets us run at 100 GHz+. At which point they'll milk it as long as possible until a competitor can do the same.
Yeah no. That's illegal.
Try owning a BMW. (Actually, don't. ACs are my friends.)
IoT, security and autonomous cars in the same phrase. How could anyone resist?
And they'll do it by leveraging the advantages of big data, right?
I read that as, "Intel buys Yoyodyne".
Just like that McAffee buyout did for integration of security hardware into their chips, or the intel powered phones (which were really nice, just didn't catch on). I imagine they'll abandon it in the next few years.
Eyy Boo-boo, where's the steering wheel in this thing?