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Intel To Cut IoT Jobs (electronicsweekly.com)

Posted by msmash on from the re-evaluation dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Intel is laying off people in its IoT group following its recent cuts to three of its IoT products -- the Joule, Edison and Galileo boards. 97 jobs are to be lost in Santa Clara and up to 40 more in Leixlip, Ireland. IoT accounts for less than 5% of Intel's sales.

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  1. IoT processor requirements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    IoT SoC requirements

    for most applications (switches, dimmers, dumb controllers, sensors) the following should be plenty:
    8 or 16bit instruction set (64bit is way overkill)
    1MB RAM - or perhaps tens or hundreds of KB

    BlueTooth LE

    hardware support required (to not eat battery) for:
    tamper-proof clock
    AES128 encrypt/decrypt
    ECDSA256 sign/verify
    1KB secure nonvolatile memory (unreadable but usable-by-reference) for provisioning keys, signing keys

    not required:
    floating point

    ideally, this should draw less than a milliwatt when in use, negligible on standby. whole part should be less than $1.

    THIS IS NOT INTEL'S MARKET

    extreme example (except lacks security) is http://cubeworks.us