Chip makers hope to give IoT a push with power-efficient components
Low battery consumption will be a key to success for IoT products, and chip makers are working on more frugal processors and microcontrollers to make that happen.
Low battery consumption will be a key to success for IoT products, and chip makers are working on more frugal processors and microcontrollers to make that happen.
Some top hardware companies have established a new Internet of Things consortium to create standards so that billions of devices can connect to each other.
In a move that could bring faster wireless capabilities to gadgets and Arduino boards, chip maker Atmel is buying wireless chip maker Newport Media for US$140 million.
Two new development kits that require Arduino programming skills could make it easier for the do-it-yourself set to build electronics and wearable devices.