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Intel To Cut IoT Jobs (electronicsweekly.com)
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.
...the IoT bubble exploded before being fully inflated ?
Tractors should be outlawed. People don't need to be pulling plows, seed drills and combines with artificial horses. It is, however, a great way to become dependent on petroleum.
It would be a huge win for horse breeders.
Promoting hopelessly overpriced boards in an area where x86 has no benefit in addition to having insufficient documentation wasn't the gamechanger they expected! If only someone knew why. -_-
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Sadly, ARM is becoming a monoculture in many areas of computing, as x86(-64) is in desktop/laptop space. I'd like to see more architecture choices (MIPS and POWER) in some markets.
Unfortunately, a lot of the semiconductor companies out there have reduced: just like Freescale & NXP have been digested by Qualcomm. Hardly looks like there's much out there. If a company chooses MIPS or Power, they have to make a business case for it to embedded customers on why it should be preferred over ARM, that has all the momentum. And if they choose ARM, they run up against goliaths like Qualcomm, Apple & Samsung.
Maybe there could be some companies running it on RISC V, where one USP is that since it's a FOSH (Free Open-Source Hardware) architecture, there may be less to pay in terms of patents to ARM or MIPS or IBM. In fact, RISC V could be something that some fabs could decide to do themselves whenever they need to fill capacity: they do have to have designs-in, though