Daft analysts claim

A small number of analysts are telling anyone who will listen that notebook makers could save themselves by getting into wearable devices.

Release  early next year

Samsung Electronics is to mass-produce open-type IoT platform starting from early 2016.

Can handle all of the Gecko family

Silicon Labs has announced broad support for ARM mbed OS within the energy-friendly EFM32 Gecko MCU based around ARM Cortex-M processors.

Bringing the future to your home

Beancounters working for analysts Navigant Research have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and decided that global revenues from residential IoT devices expected to total more than $330 billion by 2025.

Ensigma provides complete IoT suite

Chipmaker Imagination has launched a new suite of Ensigma IP solutions which cover Wi-Fi/Bluetooth software, MAC baseband, AFE and RF for the Internet of Things.

Expands eco-system

MediaTek is quietly building an ecosystem to drive IoT strategy to push its System on Chip shipments across multiple devices.

Embedded chips software downsized

Chipzilla has been handing out p45s and pink slips to some of its more experienced software staff at Wind River.

Le coq gaulois spends $25 million

A French a supplier of software used to manage Internet of Things sensor networks has collected $25 million in new funding from top European telecom operators and Foxconn.

Industry consolidation

Avago bought Broadcom for $37 billion in the largest merger of chipmakers ever and created a company which could give Intel and Qualcomm a run for their money.

The OS which would be king

Chinese firm Huawei predicted that within 10 years there will be 100 billion connected devices and its ultra-lightweight operating system to be at the heart of the infrastructure.