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SK Telecom is surging ahead to deliver 5G services in a close partnership with Ericsson and other partners

January 9, 2015 7:04 pm / Leave a comment

– 5G ^2015⇒2019 – Incremental Evolutionary Development and Standardization of 5G Technologies for the New Era of Wireless Internet of the 2020’s and 2030’s: An Outlook as of January 1, 2015
– Wi Euiseok [of SK Telekom] on Innovating Phone App for the Smart 2.0 Era [this same blog, January 9, 2015]

January 5, 2015: Korean Telco to Showcase Smart Home, IoT Devices at CES South Korea’s largest telco SK Telecom has unveiled plans to launch new devices this year to help drive the company’s growth in smart home and Internet of Things. The Korea Times reported it will be showcasing some of these at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, featuring seven new offerings in audiovisual, wellness, and education. SK Telecom said it had expanded its current “smart appcessory” business to include the “lifeware” division, to focus on promoting the company’s smart home and Internet of Things businesses as new growth engines.

More information:

SKT to unveil smart home and IoT devices at CES 2015 [The Korea Times, January 4, 2015]
SK Telecom to invest more in healthcare platform [The Korea Times, January 8, 2015]

December 29, 2014:

SK Telecom Commercializes World’s First Tri-band LTE-A Service [press release]

Launches tri-band LTE-A service by aggregating three different frequency bands: At its peak speed of 300Mbps, users can download a 1GB movie in just 28 seconds

Plans to offer a strong coverage by building more than 26,000 2.1GHz base stations within the first quarter of 2015

With the aim to deliver the highest quality of service, the company will first allow a group of consumers to experience and evaluate the service

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it launched commercial tri-band LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) service for the first time in the world.

Tri-band LTE-A service offers data speeds of up to 300Mbps by aggregating three component carriers in three different frequency bands: 20MHz bandwidth in 1.8GHz band, 10MHz bandwidth in 800MHz band, and 10MHz bandwidth in 2.1GHz band.

The service is four times faster than LTE and 21 times faster than 3G service. For instance, at its peak speed, Tri-band LTE-A service allows users to download a 1GB movie in only 28 seconds.

Prior to today’s commercialization of tri-band LTE-A Carrier Aggregation (CA), SK Telecom has been offering LTE-A service by aggregating two carriers: It launched 150Mbps LTE-A service by aggregating 10MHz bandwidth in 1.8GHz band and 10MHz bandwidth in 800MHz band in June 2013, and began 225Mbps Wideband LTE-A service by aggregating 20MHz bandwidth in 1.8GHz band and 10MHz bandwidth in 800MHz band in June 2014, both for the first time in the world. The company has developed the world’s first tri-band LTE-A CA technology in January 2014 and successfully demonstrated the 450Mbps tri-band LTE-A by binding three 20MHz bands at the Mobile World Congress 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain in February 2014.

Moreover, with the successful commercialization of tri-band LTE-A CA, SK Telecom not only secures an important edge in LTE-A 4-band CA and 5-band CA, but also moves a step closer to realizing 5G service. The company, under its technology roadmap on 5G, is making aggressive efforts to develop the world’s fastest telecommunication technology.

SK Telecom plans to offer an unmatched tri-band LTE-A service coverage in Korea. In order to provide tri-band LTE-A service, base stations that support three different frequency bands are required. Tri-band LTE-A is offered in areas where coverage of all three component carriers intersect./Tri-band LTE-A is offered in areas where signals from all three frequency bands – i.e. 800MHz, 1.8GHz, 2.1GHz – overlap

Since the company has already secured Wideband LTE-A coverage in main areas of all 84 cities nationwide – meaning that it already has in place 800MHz and 1.8GHz base stations – it can offer tri-band LTE-A service by simply adding 2.1GHz base stations. The company plans to build more than 26,000 2.1GHz base stations within the first quarter of 2015 to provide its customers with the fastest mobile telecommunications service in Seoul/ Seoul Metropolitan Area, central areas of all cities nationwide as well as all subway lines in Korea.

Galaxy Note 4 S-LTE, the first tri-band LTE-A capable device, will first be sold limitedly to a group of consumers who wish to use the service ahead of others and provide feedback on issues including its performance (e.g. speed, transmission stability, etc.) and convenience features. Through this process, SK Telecom aims to further improve its tri-band LTE-A service to better meet its customers’ needs and provide them with greater value through new mobile value-added services optimized for the ultra-fast tri-band LTE-A. SK Telecom subscribers, including this group of early users, will be able to enjoy the new service at the same price as LTE.

Lee Jong-bong, Executive Vice President and Head of Network Division said, “With the launch of the world’s first tri-band LTE-A service, we will not only provide our customers with unprecedented network speeds, but also offer differentiated and diverse mobile value-added services that meet customers’ needs and interests.”

About SK Telecom

SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM, KSE: 017670), established in 1984, is Korea’s largest telecommunications company with more than 27 million mobile subscribers, accounting for over 50% of the market. The company reached KRW 16.602 trillion [$15.2B] in revenue in 2013. As the world’s first company to commercialize CDMA, CDMA 2000 1x, CDMA EV-DO and HSDPA networks, SK Telecom launched the nation’s first LTE service in July 2011. SK Telecom also became the world’s first mobile carrier to launch 150Mbps LTE-Advanced and on June 26, 2013 and 225Mbps LTE-Advanced on June 19, 2014 through Carrier Aggregation. Backed by rapid nationwide deployment, a rich device lineup and diverse mobile value added services, the company secured over 16.3 million LTE and LTE-Advanced subscribers as of October 2014. Also, based on its strength in network operations business, SK Telecom is seeking new growth engines by building ICT convergence business models in areas of healthcare, enterprise solutions, media and education. For more information, please visit www.sktelecom.com or email to press@sktelecom.com

<Attachment 1>: Evolution of SK Telecom’s Mobile Telecommunications Services

December 7, 2014: Wearable device plans take off in Korea: … According to the nation′s biggest telecom providers,… the number of subscribers to wearable device rate plans is increasing fast. SK Telecom′s “T-Outdoor” service… which is tailored to wearable devices… saw its number of subscribers surpass 25-thousand… just little over a month after it was launched. The service, which is tailored for Samsung′s “Gear S” smartwatch … allows the users to make and receive phone calls without their smartphones. …

October 21, 2014: SK Telecom Publishes White Paper on 5G Technology [press release]

Released a white paper on 5G network system, the next generation’s mobile communications technology expected to be commercialized in 2020, at 5G Global Summit held during the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference

Covers vision, core technologies, services and etc., suggesting future directions for R&D of 5G technology in academia and industry

Plans to lead development of the next generation’s mobile communications technology by accelerating activities as a chair company of 5G Forum in Korea and expanding cooperation with global telecommunications equipment manufacturers

SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company published a white paper on 5G to suggest new direction for technological evolution to 5G, the next generation mobile communications network.

SK Telecom’s white paper on 5G is now available to the public at 5G Global Summit which is an international 5G conference held on October 20 and 21 during the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan.

Expecting the era of 5G to arrive in 2020, the white paper outlines analysis, direction and methodologies of 5G network explaining vision, core technologies, services, requirements and spectrum.

Based on its multi-dimensional analysis on 5G network from both user’s and operator’s perspectives, in particular, SK Telecom suggested User Experience, Connectivity, Intelligence, Efficiency and Reliability as 5 Great Values to pursue in the next generation telecommunications technology.

In the paper, SK Telecom anticipates the 5G system architecture to consist of three layers that are service, platform and infrastructure and mapped major technology categories and enabling technologies for each layer. As 5G network-based services, the paper proposes hologram, immersive multimedia*, hyper-connected IoT** among others.

* Immersive multimedia service: deliver realistic multimedia content using a variety technologies including AR(Augmented Reality), VR(Virtual Reality) and hologram.

** Hyper-connected IoT service: connect all ___objects including diverse sensors, smart devices and cars based on large-volume wireless network to bring convenience and innovation to people’s daily lives.

SK Telecom as a chair company of 5G Forum, an industry-academia R&D partnership for 5G in Korea, expects the white paper becomes a basis for diverse future discussions on 5G development including standardization.

Meanwhile, SK Telecom plans to push ahead with further cooperation with world-class telecommunication equipment manufacturers for development of the 5G telecommunications technology. Recently, the company signed a MOU with Samsung Electronics on October 20 for joint research and development of 5G technologies [with aim to provide large-volume high-quality services including AR (Augmented Reality) and hologram based on giga-bit data rates], and millimeter wave mobile communications technology for 5G*** is being demonstrated in World IT Show 2014.

*** Millimeter wave mobile communications technology for 5G: a technology to use ultra-high frequency bands over 30GHz for telecommunications. The technology, combined with Massive MIMO, enables delivery of giga-bit level data rate.

Earlier, SK Telecom also teamed up with Nokia and Ericsson last June and July respectively for research and development of 5G mobile communications technology and, under such initiative, FDD-TDD aggregation technology and giga-bit data speeds using ultra-wideband transmission technology were demonstrated.

Park Jin-hyo, Senior Vice President and Head of Network Technology R&D Center at SK Telecom, said, “SK Telecom is pleased to publish a white paper on 5G mobile communications technology and thereby suggest the directions for future discussions and research. The company will continue to take the lead in a range of R&D activities for the 5G technology and become the industry leader in the global market as well as in Korea.”

SK Telecom’ white paper on 5G technology is now available for download on the company’s website.

November 17, 2014: SK Telecom and Hyundai Livart partner up to create world′s first ′smart furniture’

October 30, 2014:
SK Telecom and Ericsson Develop Smart Wake-Up Technology [press release]

Smart Wake-Up Technology decreases interference between base stations and therefore improves data transmission speeds by controlling operation of idle base stations during late night and early morning

Improves energy-efficiency of networks by reducing energy waste through intelligent cell operation

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that the company, together with Ericsson, the world-renowned telecommunications technology and service provider, are the first to develop Smart Wake-up, a technology that dynamically wakes up small cells when traffic enters the cell, improving operational efficiency and user experience.

Smart Wake-Up is a new technology to control the operation of idle base stations during late night and early morning. Through intelligent operation control, the base station will be turned off when no mobile phone is detected within the cell boundary, but if any device comes into the coverage then the base station will automatically sense it and reactivate itself.

■ Smart Wake-Up

With the support of Smart Wake-Up, decreased number of active base stations will reduce interference between cells and therefore speed up the data transmission between base stations and devices.

Applying the technology, SK Telecom expects to save operating costs of base stations and enhance durability of networking equipment by mitigating power waste of inactive base stations while improving energy-efficiency of networks.

Energy-efficient network has been rising in importance along with environmental pollution and energy consumption and, accordingly, lively discussions concerning the issue are taking place globally, for example, in ‘Green Touch’, the global consortium for improving the energy efficiency of ICT, and 3GPP, a group for telecommunications technology standardization. Also, energy efficient networking, as a core technology for the next generation mobile communications network, is one of the major agenda items in 5G network discussions including 5G Forum and 5GPPP.

In the recent tests of the technology, SK Telecom confirmed that use of Smart Wake-Up increased data throughput by 18% and reduced power consumption of the base station by 21% while still providing seamless service by reactivating the cell if detected access by a terminal.

Park Jin-hyo, Senior Vice President and Head of Network Technology R&D Center at SK Telecom, said, “Once commercialized, SK Telecom expects the Smart Wake-Up technology to substantially enhance efficiency in networking equipment operation by achieving both network quality improvement and energy saving”.

Thomas Norén, Vice President and Head of Radio Product Management at Ericsson, said, “Ericsson is pleased to cooperate with SK Telecom to maximize the customer experience; especially in today’s environment where the number of LTE subscribers and mobile data traffic is soaring fast. Together with SK Telecom, Ericsson will continue its efforts in technology development to improve the efficiency of network operation”.

January 8, 2015: CES 2015: The Power of 5G Erik Ekudden, VP, Technology Strategy, discusses the importance of Ericsson’s innovation in 5G development – leading the way forward to deliver faster, high-performance mobile broadband that meets the growing challenges of the Networked Society in 2020.

July 21, 2014: SK Telecom and Ericsson Achieve World’s First Demonstration of Elastic Cell, a Key Enabler for 5G [press release]

The Elastic Cell technology will transform the current cell-centric network environment to a user-centric one.

Demonstrating data transfer rate improved by up to 50 percent at the cell-edge, SK Telecom aims to commercially launch the technology by 2016.

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that the company, together with Ericsson, the world-renowned telecommunications technology and service provider, successfully demonstrated the Elastic Cell technology on July 21. The technology, demonstrated for the first time in the world, is expected to become a key enabler for 5G.

Elastic cell, also known as Flexible Cell, is a new technology that enables multiple cells near the handset to cooperate for every transmission thereby creating a user-centric environment, compared to the current cell-centric one where each handset communicates with only one specific cell.

A serving cell receives information on nearby cells from a handset and selects a group of cells that can improve the network quality in the cell-edge for transmission while temporarily turning off the cells that cause interferences. As a result, Elastic Cell can ensure more seamless data transmission by preventing possible quality degradation that can occur when the handset moves across cell boundaries.

According to SK Telecom and Ericsson, the demonstration confirmed that the technology can improve data transfer rate by up to 50 percent at the cell boundary areas compared to the existing LTE network. With an aim to commercialize Elastic Cell by 2016, SK Telecom will continue to advance the technology.

Once applied, Elastic Cell will enable SK Telecom to provide the most optimized network service to each individual device regardless of its location while bringing the company one step closer to achieving the goal of ‘1Gbps data throughput anywhere’ which is also one of major issues in the minds of ‘METIS (Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society)’, an EU project for 5G research, and 5G Forum, an industry-academia R&D partnership for 5G in Korea.

Park Jin-hyo, Senior Vice President and Head of Network Technology R&D Center at SK Telecom, said, “SK Telecom, together with Ericsson, succeeded in the world’s first demonstration of Elastic Cell which is expected to become a prerequisite for the next generation network. We will continue to take the lead in developing a variety of technologies necessary to evolve cells.”

Thomas Norén, Vice President and Head of Product Area Radio, Ericsson says: “With this new technology SK Telecom takes an important step toward the next generation of mobile networks. Consumers will benefit from the improved seamless experience wherever they are in the cell and while on the move. SK Telecom has been a leader in technology development of 4G and beyond and we are proud to support the developments.”

Earlier on July 6, the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at Ericsson’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden for joint research on 5G technologies.

January 9, 2015: #CES2015: Ericsson 5G evolution will drive economy and jobs Ericsson global CTO, Ulf Ewaldsson

Wi Euiseok on Innovating Phone App for the Smart 2.0 Era

January 9, 2015 10:27 am / Leave a comment

Amidst quests for ‘newness’, we need to take a deeper look at the things that are already there and question their taken-for-grantedness. Wi Euiseok of SK Telecom makes a compelling case for innovation that stems from reinventing technologies that go unquestioned, things that could and should be better.

What It Is Isn’t What It Should Be [Seoul Digital Forum, May 21, 2014]

We have witnessed great strides in the field of mobile telecommunications over the past three decades. Thanks to the remarkable advancements in network speed and smartphone performance, the industry is currently flooded with mobile services such as games, messenger services and video contents. However, ‘phone,’ the most frequently used app in smartphones, was left behind, remaining unchanged all these years. Thus, we made it our task to adapt this app to the Smart 2.0 Era, marked by convergence, connectivity and integration. Here, we present ‘T Phone,’ SK Telecom’s innovative communication platform that will take the ‘phone’ to the next level.

Wi Euiseok, Executive Vice President & Head of Product Planning Division, SK Telecom

Euiseok Wi is Executive Vice President and Head of Product Planning Division of SK Telecom. Since starting his career in 1990 after receiving a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from KAIST, Wi gained extensive experience in the field of ICT by working at over 20 different companies including Solvit System, where he took charge of workstation development in 1990, and Serome Technology, a company he co-founded in 1993.

Dreaming of a world where all computers are connected via the Internet, Wi jointly established Inet Inc., Korea’s first non-carrier Internet service provider (ISP) in 1994. He then joined NHN Corporation (now NAVER Corporation) in 2006 and contributed to the growth of the company by achieving remarkable success with the in-house search advertising platform.

In 2012, Wi joined SK Telecom as the Head of Product Planning Division, tasked with creating new growth engines through the development of new and innovative products. Recently, he grabbed global attention by releasing T Phone, the world’s first integrated phone dialer platform built by a mobile operator, thereby opening a new chapter in the field of ICT.

Original: http://www.sdf.or.kr/2014/en/frame.jsp? p=mainSessions_enView&td=1&i=10000000252

2015: Intel Curie Module prototype with the new Intel Quark SE SoC—the first end-to-end solution designed for wearables

January 8, 2015 3:27 pm / Leave a comment

Details about Intel achievements last year (mentioned in the 2nd half of this video as well): 2014: A bleeding edge effort in chips (SoC), COM and software technology (inc. Wind River) for already marketable wearables by Intel has enabled its overall 2015 strategy in IoT and allows to expand its wearable ecosystem with an ‘art of the possible in technology’ article of Dec 11, 2014 – Jan 3, 2015 on this same blog to present Intel’s much more advanced state of its 5G effort (albeit not named as such) than either Ericsson’s or Qualcomm’s. See the 5G ^2015⇒2019 analytical page of Dec 30, 2014 for details on the latter.

A “dedicated sensor hub processor and pattern classification engine” (as per Intel CEO Brian Kranich) based on the low-power 32-bit Intel Quark SE SoC with:

384kB Flash memory,
80kB SRAM and
a low-power integrated DSP sensor hub with a proprietary pattern matching accelerator that allows it to identify different motions and activities
quickly and accurately

This is coming in a fairly unique and novel circularly shaped PCB module with dimensions of a US dime approximately (~18mm diameter) that can power a solution the size of a button. The PCB module is also containing the other essential components needed to bring digital capabilities, including wireless connectivity, to wearables such as :

Bluetooth low-energy radio
6-axis combo sensor with accelerometer and gyroscope
battery charging circuitry (PMIC)

“This product just came fresh from our labs, so to show you that it’s working, we created a simple app,” Intel CEO Brian Kranich said at CES 2015. He demonstrated how the button-sized Intel Curie Module was measuring his steps and sending that data to an app on his smartphone.

It is ideal for “always-on” applications such as social media, sports and fitness activities. This can enable efficient and intelligent wearable solutions for a broad range of form factors—including rings, bags, bracelets, pendants, fitness trackers, even buttons. The module has been designed from the outset to be very power efficient. It can run for extended periods from a coin-sized battery.

To speed the development of wearable products based on the Intel Curie module, Intel is providing a complete software solution that includes a small and efficient real-time operating system (RTOS) together with reference wearable applications called Intel® IQ Software Kits. These software kits are designed to help fashion, sports and lifestyle companies incorporate advanced functionality into their wearable designs, help speed time-to market, and ultimately provide people with a product experience that offers greater utility and value. The kits include the embedded software that runs on the module together with companion smartphone applications and associated cloud capabilities.

The module is scheduled to ship in the second half of this year.

“In the future, we will see wearable products created by companies that have historically never used silicon before…It’s now up to the ecosystem to innovate with this technology; rings, bags, bracelets, pendants and yes, buttons, will all be possible.”
–Michael A. Bell, corporate vice president and general manager of the New Devices Group for Intel

From Congratulations to ESA Rosetta team on successful comet landing! post of Nov 12, 2014 by Paul Parkinson on Wind River blog:

Wind River has recently expanded the potential options available to system architects by providing the VxWorks 7 Microkernel Profile, which brings DSP RTOS levels of extreme scalability to general purpose processors – enabling an application to be scaled to a footprint as small as 20kbytes, which can be used to achieve extremely fast boot times and operate in extremely resource-constrained environments for applications on earth and in deep space.

“The VxWorks Microkernel is a small footprint, highly optimized operating system designed to meet the needs of tomorrow’s wearable and IoT technologies. … Design, develop, debug, and test kernel features, drivers, and/or BSPs [Board Support Packages] for the VxWorks Microkernel Real Time Operating System (VxMicro RTOS)”
–from Wind River Job Ads

From Designing a Great Wearables Experience post of Aug 6, 2014 by Michael A. Bell on Technology@Intel blog:

Intel® IQ Software Kits

Intel® IQ Software Kits are a set of software and features that will enable a number of different functions on wearable devices developed using Intel technology. These software kits will package together the related algorithms, device software, software for smartphone apps, and cloud software for device management and analytics capabilities.

As a first step, we are announcing the first two software kits to enable capabilities related to people’s biometric information and social interactions, called Intel Body IQ and Intel Social IQ, respectively.

Intel Body IQ software will enable a range of capabilities for measuring a person’s biometric information, such as:

Counting steps

Calculating calories burned throughout the day

Automatic and real-time recognition of activity

Walking, Running and Biking

Smart notifications based on customized goals

Visual device notifications for status

Richer visualization of data and status on companion smartphone app

Full visualization and summary of all personal data through a cloud portal

Intel Social IQ software will enable a range of capabilities tracking a person’s social interactions, such as:

User designated phone calls, SMS and social network notifications

Device-to-device single state social communication

Notifications related to the brand of the device, sent by device OEM

Accompanying phone app to configure filtering options

Cloud portal for device company to push brand notifications

The Intel Body and Social IQ software kits include smartphone and cloud components that complete the experience by providing rich visualization, analytics and device management capabilities, both for the users and customer brands.

Through Intel IQs we look forward to providing our customers with the option to more easily integrate advanced technology into their designs. As we continue to push the boundaries of wearable tech and explore new capabilities, our goal is to evolve the software kits over time and expand with even more compelling capabilities.

We believe that wearable technology will reach its true potential when designers at sports, fashion, lifestyle and even technology companies have the freedom and latitude to distill their vision and design experience into smart devices.

Digital India? The position of Intel India

December 20, 2014 8:53 pm / Leave a comment

The tons of data that will be generated in the coming years will open opportunities in storage, and analytics as IoT is vital for Digital India Initiative, says Debjani Ghosh, VP, sales and marketing group, and MD-South Asia, Intel India.

2014: A bleeding edge effort in chips (SoC), COM and software technology (inc. Wind River) for already marketable wearables by Intel has enabled its overall 2015 strategy in IoT and allows to expand its wearable ecosystem with an ‘art of the possible in technology’

December 11, 2014 11:50 pm / Leave a comment

This is representing a much more advanced state than that of leading core network technology vendors Ericsson and Qualcomm under their so called 5G efforts. See the 5G ^2015⇒2019 analytical page of Dec 30, 2014 for details on the latter, as well as the companion posts to this one:

December 5, 2014: New Intel® Quark™ SoCs to enhance the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT (“Moon Island”) portfolio in a year from now article on this same blog to show the chip roadmap for both the IoT and the wearables

December 10, 2014: Wind River: Intel’s core technology provider for IoT article on this same blog to present the newly introduced Intel IoT Platform

Jan 5, 2014: Why Is Intel Investing $25M in This Google Glass Rival? Vuzix Founder and CEO Paul Travers discusses the company’s smart eyewear products.

Jan 2, 2015: Vuzix Corporation Receives $24.8 Million Investment From Intel Corporation: “Vuzix‘ wearable display technology is focused on next generation optics and displays that have the potential to fit in fashion-based wearable glasses. Intel’s investment will be used for general working capital to accelerate the introduction of Vuzix next generation fashion-based wearable display products into the consumer market. … Vuzix is a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, commercial and entertainment markets. The Company’s products include personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and virtual and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 39 patents and 10 additional patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2014 and several wireless technology innovation awards, among others.”

The company that could kill Google Glass | Fortune as of Sept 20, 2014

Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses | Amazon Store as of Dec 14, 2014: Vuzix Smart Glasses review & detail – http://amzn.to/12QKsUR (for $1K from Oct 8, 2014, on pre-order from Nov 18)

: The MICA bracelet from Opening Ceremony is in the top left corner.

Dec 3, 2014: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announces Luxottica [the €7.3B Italian eyewear maker] partnership: “We are going to do exactly what we did similar to Opening Ceremony [see all the first wearables on the right which were coming out in 2014 as the result of Intel effort under the ‘art of the possible in technology’ approach—all of them will be presented in this post]. We are coming to them with the ‘art of the possible in technology‘. Here’s what’s possible. Tell us what now would you like to go trying doing this from eyeware standpoint. We’ll start to build an experiment with products built together, and we will learn from each other.”

At the same time Intel issued a press release: Intel and Luxottica Group Announce Multiyear Collaboration for Wearable Tech

Intel Corporation and Luxottica Group S.p.A (MTA: LUX; NYSE: LUX) today unveiled a multiyear R&D collaboration to fuse premium, luxury and sports eyewear with smart technology.

This strategic alliance will push the boundaries of research and development to anticipate what smart technology for eyewear will look like in the future. The ultimate goal is to help pioneer that change and deliver smart, fashion-forward products that are meaningful and desirable to consumers. The first product from Intel and Luxottica is expected to launch in 2015.

“The growth of wearable technology is creating a new playing field for innovation,” said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. “Through our collaboration with Luxottica Group, we will unite our respective ecosystems and bring together Intel’s leading-edge silicon and software technology with Luxottica’s design innovation and consumer expertise. We expect the combination of our expertise to help drive a much faster pace of innovation and push the envelope of what’s possible.”

“This is an incredible opportunity for us to continue to innovate and further shape the future of eyewear,” said Massimo Vian, CEO of Luxottica Group. “Together with Intel, we will continue to develop the potential of wearables, expanding the limits of what eyewear can be. We’ll lead the change to create frames that are as intelligent and functional as they are beautiful. Products that consumers will love to wear.”

About Luxottica Group
Luxottica Group (MTA: LUX; NYSE: LUX) is a leader in premium, luxury and sports eyewear with over 7,000 optical and sun retail stores in North America, Asia-Pacific, China, South Africa, Latin America and Europe, and a strong, well-balanced brand portfolio. House brands include Ray-Ban, the world’s most famous sun eyewear brand, Oakley, Vogue Eyewear, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Alain Mikli and Arnette, while licensed brands include Giorgio Armani, Bulgari, Burberry, Chanel, Coach, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Michael Kors, Starck Eyes, Tiffany and Versace. In addition to a global wholesale network involving 130 different countries, the Group manages leading retail chains in major markets, including LensCrafters, Pearle Vision and ILORI in North America, OPSM and Laubman & Pank in Asia-Pacific, LensCrafters in China, GMO in Latin America and Sunglass Hut worldwide. The Group’s products are designed and manufactured at its six manufacturing plants in Italy, three wholly owned plants in the People’s Republic of China, one plant in Brazil and one plant in the United States devoted to the production of sports eyewear. In 2013, Luxottica Group posted net sales of more than Euro 7.3 billion. Additional information on the Group is available at http://www.luxottica.com.

The “bleeding edge effort in … for already marketable wearables by Intel” mentioned in the title of this post has successfully been carried out for the following 2014 products:

: MICA (‘My Intelligent Communication Accessory’) Bracelet designed by Opening Ceremony, engineered by Intel (detailed information is further on in this post). It has come to sales early December in a few U.S. outlets for $495.

: Basis Peak – The Ultimate Fitness and Sleep Tracker, from Basis—part of Intel New Devices Group since March 25, after the $100M acquisition of the 2011 healthcare start-up BASIS Science Inc. (in Series C founding of which Intel Capital participated as well). Basis Peak sales started on November 5 at some BestBuys. By the time of a software update announced on November 20 for getting phone, text and email notifications as well as 3d party integration with apps (to be available mid-December) the product became available on Amazon and REI for $200 as well. Amazon in UK, and Best Buy and Future Shop in Canada joined sales in mid-December. Detailed information is further on in this post.

Basis Peak - The redesigned iOS or Android Peak apps

The redesigned iOS or Android Peak apps sync your data wirelessly (with Bluetooth Smart™) and start getting insights right on your phone. This provides not only summary data, but let you dive deeper into each activity or night’s sleep.

: BioSport™ In-Ear headphones developed in collaboration between SMS Audio and Intel announced in August 2014. The headphones include advanced technology features to deliver a high-quality audio experience while gathering actionable data on fitness progress. The heart rate monitoring headphones integrate biometric sensors for fitness data collection – allowing users to track goals and progress to achieve peak physical performance. The BioSport In-Ear headphones became available on December 3 with initial release at Dick’s Sporting Goods and online at smsaudio.com, amazon.com and bestbuy.com for $150. Detailed information is further on in this post.

: A Wearable Flying Camera functional prototype from Team Nixie (being rock climbers as well) winning the $500K 1st prize in Intel’s ‘ Make it Wearable’ contest on November 3. With that money in their pockets they are now working on making the prototype safe, more durable, more functional and beautiful for a great product launch in 2015. Check out their website at http://flynixie.com and follow them on facebook http://facebook.com/flynixie. More information is further on in this post.

: The prototype of a 3D printed robotic prosthetic hand from Team Open Bionics. Open Bionics came out of the Open Hand Project, where they developed such a hand (then called Dextrus) that would cost amputees less than $1,000. Open Bionics is open-source, which means that all of the know-how needed to create a robotic prosthetic hand will eventually be posted on their website. The idea is that potentially anyone can improve and customise the designs themselves, and then upload them for everyone to share. For the Open Hand Project project they raised 43.593 (~$68K) by October 14, as a finalist in Intel’s ‘ Make it Wearable’ contest they got $50K, and by winning the second place on November 3 they added to that $200K. You can follow their progress with the product on http://www.openbionics.com/. More information is further on in this post. In the video below there is the pitch for crowd sourcing of the Open Hand Project:

: ProGlove – a smart glove prototype for workers in discrete manufacturing processes like the car industry from Team ProGlove winning the $100K 3d place prize in Intel’s ‘ Make it Wearable’ contest on November 3. This wearable production tool enables the user to work faster and easier by making hands smarter for manufacturing and beyond. At the same time it opens up a new level in control and business intelligence for production management. You can follow their website at http://www.proglove.de/. More information is further on in this post.

Explanations of the terms used in the title of this post from this same blog:

Wind River: Intel’s core technology provider for IoT [posted on Dec 10, 2014]

Regarding Intel’s ‘catch up’ approach to SoC technology representing a true ‘bleeding edge’ effort for Intel (as the company was quite significantly lagging behind the leading in SoC technology ARM ecosystem): New Intel® Quark™ SoCs to enhance the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT (“Moon Island”) portfolio in a year from now [posted on Dec 4, 2014]

A modern Sytem-on-Chip (SoC) [a page on this blog published on Aug 28, 2013]… is first and foremost designed from a number of commercial IP (Intellectual Property) blocks by a specialist SoC architect with full knowledge of currently available IP blocks as well as the latest expertise of how to put them together in such a way that works. The typical subsystems within a SoC are:- CPU Subsystem (e.g. from ARM, in the above case Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 cores with the latest “big-LITTLE architecture”)
– Design-Specific Subsystems: GPU Subsystem for 3D Graphics, DSP (Digital Signal Processor) Subsystem for audiovisual (A/V), Application IP Subsystem, AES (Advanced Encryption Subsystem), 2D Graphics, MPEG, etc.
– Memory Subsystem: …
– the subsystem of High Speed Wired Peripherals: …
– Wireless Subsystem: WiFi, GSM, LTE, LTE Advanced (Mobile Internet)
– Security Subsystem: CryptoFirewall™ (PCF+), RSA-PSS Certified Engine
– the subsystem of I/O Peripherals: …

Explanations of the terms used in the title of the post from Wikipedia:

Bleeding edge technology is a category of technologies so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and lead adopters to incur greater expense in order to make use of them.^[1]^[2] The term bleeding edge was formed as an allusion to the similar terms “leading edge” and “cutting edge“. It tends to imply even greater advancement, albeit at an increased risk because of the unreliability of the software or other technology.^[3] The first documented example of this term being used dates to early 1983, when an unnamed banking executive was quoted to have used it in reference to Storage Technology Corporation.^[4]

A computer-on-module (COM) or System on Module (SOM) is a type of single-board computer (SBC), a subtype of an embedded computer system. An extension of the concept of system on chip (SoC) and system in package (SiP), COM lies between a full-up computer and a microcontroller in nature.

From Intel Enables Makers and Wearable Creators press kit in Intel Newsroom as of Nov 25, 2014:

Wearable computing is an accelerating phenomenon that is re-defining how people use and interact with information. Intel’s strategy is to imagine and create reference design devices and platforms ready to be used by customers in the development of wearable products.

Intel® Edison is a product-ready, general purpose compute platform that is well-suited to enable rapid innovation and product development by a range of inventors, entrepreneurs and consumer product designers in this space.

: Intel Edison COM Module. SoC (called Tangier) with a hybrid architecture : 22-nm Intel® SoC that includes a dual-core, dualthreaded Intel® AtomTM CPU at 500Mhz and a 32-bit Intel® QuarkTM microcontroller (MCU) at 100 MHz. RAM: 1 GB LPDDR3 POP memory (2 channel 32bits @ 800MT/sec). Flash Storage: 4 GB eMMC (v4.51 spec). WiFi: Broadcom* 43340 802.11 a/b/g/n; Dual-band (2.4 and 5 GHz); On board antenna or external antenna; SKU configurations. Bluetooth: BT 4.0. Intel Edison Developer Options. For the Microcontroller (MCU) development the RTOS (Real-Time OS) was derived from Wind Rivers’ VxWorks 7 (as a lightweight version of it), and to be called ViperOS according to Jim Chase, product manager for the Intel Edison and Galileo platform hardware and ecosystems. The Atom part of the SoC used in the Edison COM Module is run by the latest Yocto Linux 1.6. Yocto is based on an OpenEmbedded core (used for creating Linux distributions aimed for, but not restricted to, embedded devices), and comprises standardized templates, tools, and methods for embedded Linux. It also provides a large, collaborative community, and makes it much easier to track license compliance, a key concern for customers. Note that both Intel and Wind River are major contributors to the Yocto Project, and Wind River Linux distribution (the latest is Wind River Linux 6) is based on Yocto (Wind River Linux 6 on Yocto Linux 1.5).

Feb 27, 2014: Yocto Project: Foundation for the Internet of Things Become a Super Developer today with the Yocto Project and Intel’s tools and technologies to vanquish the Frankenstein OS. The Yocto Project, a collaborative open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, offers a central hub of templates, tools, and methods that streamline custom Linux development and ease the effects of fragmentation in the embedded Linux market. Involvement by commercial and open-source ecosystem members, including silicon vendors, OS vendors, consultants, and embedded developers fosters innovation across architectures and device types. As a founding project member, Intel provides key contributions to the Yocto Project kernel, helps foster standards-compliant advances in the project as a whole, and ensures excellent performance and compatibility with Intel® architecture. Learn more about the Yocto Project and how it could benefit your OS system here:

Sept 8, 2014: Announcing Intel IoT Developer Kit I am [Ajay Mungara (Intel)] pleased to announce the launch of Intel® IoT Developer Kit (beta) – a complete set of hardware and software resources for creating innovative IoT solutions. IoT dev kit is part of a larger Intel IoT developer program targeted at hobbyists, students and entrepreneurial developers. In addition to the IoT dev Kit, the program includes IoT developer zone for downloads, latest content and support, local Hackathons & meet-ups to showcase and share ideas, and IoT Academic courseware program that will assist leading universities in building curriculum for the Internet of Things.

IoT Dev Kit consists of:

(1) Hardware components (Intel® Galileo and Intel® Edison boards, shields, sensors, actuators)

(2) Software image and/or the software packages

(3) Support for various IDEs allowing you to program in your favorite language

(Eclipse, Intel XDK IoT Edition, Arduino & Wyliodrin)

(4) Cloud services for a data management and analytics

(5) Additional tools and solutions for optimization and performance

(Intel System Studio [ISS]for IoT & Wind River VxWorks for Makers)

More details: …

(1) Hardware components:

Choice of IoT Development board:

Intel® Galileo Gen 1

Intel® Galileo Gen 2

Intel® Edison

Sensors/ Actuators: Kick start your IoT solution with Grove Starter Kit Plus – Intel ® IoT Edition (for a limited time we are offering a special 15% discount). You have the choice of many supported shields, sensors, actuators to bring your project to life. If you don’t find your favorite sensor/shield, please let us know. We are always looking for additional sensors to bring to our platform so do not hesitate to contribute and if you have some suggestions for our current drivers you can always make a git pull request.

(2) Software Image:

For Intel Galileo: Yocto 1.6 based embedded Linux* boot image that includes helpful Linux tools (GCC tool chain, perf, oProfile, etc.), required drivers (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.), useful API libraries, and daemons like LighttPD and Node.js.

For Intel Edison: The dev kit libraries are already included in the OS distributed with the Edison development board. Make sure you: (1) follow the latest Edison getting started guide (2) periodically check for any new package updates

(3) IDE/ Programming language choice: Once you have chosen the hardware components and the software image to use, download the IDE you want based on your programming language preference.

C/C++ – Eclipse* IDE – C/C++ application development toolkit includes:

Eclipse IDE for Windows*, Mac* or Linux*

All the essential tools you need (cross-compiling tool chain, debugging and profiling tools)

Libraries to connect and access the Galileo or Edison boards + Sensor libraries

Useful templates/ samples to help you start building IoT applications quickly

JavaScript / Intel® XDK IoT Edition. You can build complete IoT solutions using Node.js on-board apps and companion apps (html5). Please note that Intel XDK – IoT Edition will be available for download on Sept 30, 2014.

Arduino IDE. Develop IoT solutions using the Arduino Sketches. Make sure to download and install the latest Arduino software and board support package

Wyliodrin – Visual programming (Galileo Only): Wyliodrin is a service that allows you to visually create applications for your Intel Galileo Board and control it directly from a browser. With Intel Galileo you get one year free subscription that allows you to use 3 boards and create 15 applications. Some very good step by step video tutorials to help you understand what you can do with Wyliodrin.

(4) Cloud Analytics ( https://dashboard.us.enableiot.com): Intel IoT Analytics includes capabilities for data collection, storage, and analysis of sensor data. It also allows you to run rules on your data stream to trigger alerts based on advanced analytics. This is a free service from Intel for limited non-commercial use. Getting started guide for Cloud Analytics shows how to take advantage of this service.

(5) Additional tools and solutions for optimization and performance

Intel System Studio for IoT – An integrated software development suite that provides deep hardware and software insights to speed development, testing and optimization. Supports Intel Quark (Galileo) and Intel Atom (Edison) with features such as debuggers (JTAG, using open OCD), Intel C++ compiler and performance libraries/tools. Intel System Studio is available with a non-commercial use trial license.

Oct 31, 2014: Intel® System Studio comes with many new capabilities
Nov 5, 2014: Webinar: Intel System Studio 2015
Accelerate Development for Embedded, Mobile, and the Internet of Things – YouTube

Wind River VxWorks* for Makers (Galileo Only) – is a professional operating environment for embedded devices. It is the platform you choose if you want to commercialize that really cool idea you have for a killer product. VxWorks is modular and optimized for different types of applications. There are medical, industrial, safety and security profiles that can be added to core VxWorks to tune the solution for users. VxWorks for Makers is available with a limited non-commercial use trial license.

Are you ready to build something using the IoT dev kit then register and attend our IoT Roadshows[as announced at IDF, Intel® is bringing ten IoT Roadshow events] and get a FREE kit (Hardware + Software) plus connect with Intel & Industry IoT Experts . Our team is happy to answer any questions you may have in the IoT support forum.

As the Product Manager for Intel IoT dev kit[Ajay Mungara (Intel)], I am always looking for product feedback, ideas for product improvement and opportunity to connect with developers/makers using the dev kit. I am very excited to make the IoT dev kit available to you. Use the Intel IoT developer kit and GO make something inspirational and innovative happen!

Oct 1, 2014: Chip Shot: Intel Releases Internet of Things Developer Kit for Makers. To cater to the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market, Intel today extended the Intel® IoT Developer Kit by releasing the Intel® XDK IoT Edition, simplifying the development of IoT apps written in JavaScript. The tool provides makers with an integrated approach to create, run and debug apps on Intel® Edison and Intel® Galileo boards. In addition, Intel® XDK IoT Edition can be used to develop an HTML5 companion app that runs on phones, tablets and PCs to control the IoT devices. Intel® XDK IoT Edition is available as a free download for Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux.

Nov 18, 2014: Innovative Projects from the Intel® IoT Roadshow

… our IoT Roadshows [as announced at IDF, Intel® is bringing ten IoT Roadshow events] …

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USA (Sept 20-21, Oct 4-5 w/100+, Oct 25-26 w/130+ & 22 projects)

India (Nov 22-23, 130 people, 42 projects)

Germany (Oct 18-19, 100+ people, 17 projects)

China (Nov 29-30, 113 people, 33 projects

Brazil (Nov 28-29, 99 people, 26 projects)

France (Sept 27-28, 90- people, 18 projects)

Russia (Nov 22-23, 120 people, 42 projects)

South Korea

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Dec 15, 2014: Intel® and the Internet of Things – What will you Make?

July 29, 2014: How Intel is approaching the burgeoning wearables market, perspective from two leaders on the Inside. A Conversation with Intel’s Mike Bell [VP & GM, Intel New Devices] and former Basis CEO Jef Holove article published by Intel Free Press.

Oct 3, 2014: Smart Bike Helmet: Biking safety documented by the crowd while keeping your brain safe with mind-blowing tech – Intel Edison. Save the Intel Makers Playlist: http://bit.ly/1tFUjJd

For more information read Tech Interns Create Smart Bike Helmet That Could Save Your Life article published by Intel Free Press on August 28, 2014.

Oct 3, 2014: Creating a New Experience for Motorcycle Riders: Intel teamed up with the BMW tech office to open up an R1200 GS motorcycle. Integrating Intel® Edison technology, we exposed a whole new set of experiences for the rider.

Oct 14, 2014: Intel’s Ayse Ildeniz on the Convergence of Technology and Fashion: Ayse Ildeniz, VP/GM of Business Development and Strategy, Intel’s New Devices Group, discusses the convergence of technology and fashion. (16:18)

: CLICK HERE or ON THE IMAGE ABOVE TO WATCH THE VIDEO!

Nov 7, 2014: At the Web Summit in Dublin, Mike Bell, VP & GM, Intel New Devices talks about how technology and fashion are colliding through wearable devices.

Nov 17, 2014: Opening Ceremony, Intel Take Wraps off Capabilities for MICA, My Intelligent Communication Accessory

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

MICA, My Intelligent Communication Accessory, designed by Opening Ceremony, engineered by Intel, connects fashion-forward women to text messages, Google** and Facebook* notifications, and local business recommendations powered by Yelp* and TomTom*.

An intelligent bracelet composed of precious gems and Ayers snakeskin, MICA will retail for $495, which includes two years of AT&T* wireless data service provided by Intel.

MICA will be available by early December exclusively in the U.S. at Opening Ceremony New York and Los Angeles, select Barneys New York locations, and online at OpeningCeremony.us and Barneys.com.

“Our pioneering collaboration with Opening Ceremony and the introduction of this category-defining smart jewelry piece advances wearable technology as a distinctively stylish accessory that places importance on both aesthetics and functionality,” said Ayse Ildeniz, vice president and general manager for business development and strategy, New Devices Group at Intel Corporation. “MICA captures Intel’s philosophy that technology should enhance jewelry in order to make wearable technology truly ‘wantable,’ in addition to seamless and productive.”

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“MICA acts as an extension of a customer’s smartphone, for those times when it’s not convenient to carry with you,” said Chris Penrose, senior vice president, Internet of Things, AT&T. “It allows customers to receive texts and email notifications so that they can stay connected, while still wearing a fashionable jewelry piece to almost any occasion.”

MICA PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:

Reflecting market research garnered from the Opening Ceremony community and influencers in the industry, Opening Ceremony and Intel developed the design, features and purpose of the MICA bracelet for the woman who is always on the go and enjoys being socially connected, and who has a deep appreciation for fashion. Via a touch-screen sapphire display, wearers can easily view content. Vibration-based alerts, a curated VIP contact list and customizable quick replies deliver notifications directly to the wrist – eliminating the need to fumble through a handbag or interrupt a meeting or event.

Messaging: MICA provides access to text messages and notifications of incoming mails from “important contacts” as designated in Gmail. Users can dismiss notifications from the device and respond with customizable quick replies.

Calendar and Event Notifications: MICA displays Google Calendar and Facebook event notifications while enabling users to accept or reject appointments.

Personal Concierge: MICA offers intelligent reminders, “Time to Go” (TTG), powered by TomTom and Intel, that dynamically adjust based on location to account for the time required to get to the next appointment. MICA also provides users with access to Yelp local search, which includes business ratings and reviews. MICA wearers can use Yelp to locate restaurants, shops and other local businesses nearby.

Priority Notifications: Users can curate a VIP contact list that filters notifications and text messages. Vibration-based alerts discreetly alert the wearer to incoming alerts.

Design: Elevating the appearance of traditional wearable devices, MICA’s cutting-edge design is constructed of premium finishes and 18K gold coating with a curved sapphire glass touch screen display.
One style features black water snake skin, pearls from China and lapis stones from Madagascar, while the other style features white water snake skin, tiger’s eye from South Africa and obsidian from Russia.

Configuration and Security: The bracelet provides remote access and locking, the ability to locate the device, and configuration capabilities via a Web-based portal.

Two-Year AT&T Data Service Paid by Intel: MICA is connected by AT&T and includes a two-year wireless service plan provided by Intel in the price of the bracelet.

Intel MICA Smart Bracelet | First Look by TechCrunch. Today in Chelsea Intel and Opening Ceremony announced the launch of their first collaboration that happens to be a connected smart bracelet called the MICA. It stands alone from your smartphone, as it has cellular radio with 2 years free data from partner AT&T. Jordan spoke to the VP of Biz Dev Ayse Ildeniz:

For more information read MICA Intelligent Luxury Fashion Bracelet Stays Alert With Style same day article from Intel’s Innovation Everywhere.

Nov 20, 2014: Basis Announces New Smartphone Features, Accessory Straps and Retail Availability for Peak Health and Fitness Tracker which was revealed in late September as the ultimate fitness and sleep tracker. With Peak, you get deep insights into how your body is performing, from workouts to sleep and everything in-between. Peak combines comprehensive fitness and sleep analysis – including heart rate during exercise – with smartphone notifications, making it the ultimate, all-in-one device.

Dec 3, 2014: ’50 Cent’ and Intel Fuse Fitness With Biometric Headphones. It was developed out of an earlier agreement: Intel and SMS Audio [a premier audio headphone and accessories brand] to Supercharge Fitness Wearables (Aug 14, 2014). Biometric Headphones Will Optimize Workouts for Ultra-marathoners, Aspirational Exercisers and Everyone in Between.

On December 3, 2014 the SMS Audio In-Ear Wired BioSport – Powered by Intel – was launched from the 68th floor of 4 World Trade Center, NY. Hundreds of press and industry analysts were in attendance as SMS Audio President Brian Nohe introduced 50 Cent, Carmelo Anthony, Intel VP of New Products Mike Bell, and a best-in-class headphone and heart rate monitor.

Learn more about the In-Ear Wired BioSport at http://smsaudio.com/products/biosport-in-ear-wired-with-heart-monitor

SMS Audio’s BioSport in-ear heart rate monitoring headphones combines your love of music with your passion for fitness in one easy to use, wearable device. No extra straps, no bulky monitors, no worrying about battery life. New SMS Audio Biosport In-Ear Headphones are simplified, smarter ear buds that integrate Intel technology and SMS Audio studio quality sound. The self-charging system uses in-ear pulse sensors that sync with the RunKeeper app for an easy-to-use, wearable experience that tracks and enables your personal best.

—– About SMS Audio, LLC —–
A premier audio headphone and accessories brand, SMS Audio, LLC is dedicated to improving the way people experience music. SMS Audio combines technology, function and style to deliver studio mastered sound wherever you go.

A global audio headphone and accessories brand, SMS Audio is dedicated to improving the way people around the world experience music by combining technology, function and style to bring a superior level of sound, comfort and fashion to every product. Delivering a professional, studio-quality music experience, the SMS Audio line includes STREET by 50™ and SYNC by 50™. SMS Audio offers a full range of premium headphones, earbuds, and accessories designed to meet the needs of various consumer segments.

Could be important for 2015:

Fossil Group [specializing in fashion accessories] and Intel Announce Collaboration to Develop Innovation in Wearable Technology (September 5, 2014). The companies will work together on emerging products and technologies that will be developed for the fashion-oriented consumer.
Intel and Milk Studios have partnered to create MUZSE, the first culture and technology innovation program based in New York City. In Technology Meets Culture with the Launch of MUZSE article (Oct 15, 2014) from Intel’s Innovation Everywhere Ayse Ildeniz said “[It] will provide a platform where we can experiment with ideas in culture and technology unlike ever before.”

Intel Make it Wearable Challenge – $500,000 Prize for One Lucky Winner:

Six industry luminaries in fields from fashion and design to fitness and retail are joining Intel CEO Brian Krzanich as judges in the Intel “Make It Wearable” challenge, helping to shape the future of wearable technology. On Nov. 3, they will select three winners who will be awarded a total of US$800,000.

Nov 3, 2014: Chip Shot: Nixie Wins $500,000 Grand Prize in Intel Make It Wearable Challenge

Today Nixie was named the grand prize winner of the Intel Make It Wearable challenge, a global initiative that Intel announced at CES 2014 to fuel creativity and challenge innovators to evolve personal computing using Intel® Edison technology. Winning the $500,000 grand prize, Nixie is the first wearable camera that can fly, unfolds and takes flight on cue to take the perfect shot from unique perspectives. Second prize winner, Open Bionics was awarded $200,000, using low cost, high efficiency 3-D printing and scanning to bring customized products to amputees for less than $1,000. Third prize winner and recipient of $100,000, ProGlove is offering an enterprise invention that seeks to reduce physical work stress, improve ergonomics and reduce costly workplace mistakes. Watch the webcast replay.

Nov 5, 2014: Make it Wearable Winners Talk Wearable Prototypes: This video shows highlights from the top three winners’ presentations at the Intel Make it Wearable finals held in early November 2014. @FlyNixie shows their wearable drone camera, perfect for taking selfies. @OpenBionics shows their open source robotic limb, and #ProGlove shows their smart glove for B2B and humanitarian uses. All wearable prototypes at Make it Wearable use the Intel® Edison module.

Nov 3, 2014: VentureBeat interview about the Nixie flyable and wearable camera with Jelena Jovanovic, COO / Co-Founder at Nixie Labs

Oct 1, 2014: Make It Wearable Finalists – Meet Team Nixie: Team Nixie (http://flynixie.com) is developing the first wearable drone camera, which can be worn around your wrist. The team will be presenting their prototype for the Intel Make It Wearable Challenge Finale on November 3, 2014 in San Francisco. Learn more about Make It Wearable and follow the race to the finish line at http://makeit.intel.com. To find out more about Team Nixie, see their work at http://flynixie.com or follow them on https://www.facebook.com/flynixie.

Oct 8, 2014: Make it Wearable Finalists – Meet Team Open Bionics: Team Open Bionics is developing a 3D-printed prosthetic with the functionalities of a high-end device, but for a much lower cost. The team will be presenting their prototype for the Intel Make It Wearable challenge finale on November 3, 2014 in San Francisco.

Oct 20, 2014: Make It Wearable Finalists – Meet Team ProGlove: ProGlove (www.proglove.de) is a sensor-based “smart glove” that can boost productivity for manufacturing jobs. The team behind it will be presenting their prototype for the Intel Make It Wearable challenge finale on November 3, 2014 in San Francisco.

ProGlove, a smart glove designed specifically designed for the professional production process, such as car manufacturers. More a “tool” than trendy accessory, the ProGlove hosts a slew of sensors to offer information on what the wearer is working with, such as the ability to scan barcodes, detect the thickness of a material, displaying an object’s temperature, voltage, offer instructions and more. So this workglove can identify parts or tools as the assembly worker touches them and provide instructions or training on the fly. It could also track the worker’s movements, heart rate, mood, and productivity.

Previously they would have had a hand held machine they would have had to pass the item over of physically pick up a unit and scan the device. This change alone provides apparent benefits to the company in just 3 months. You can also analyze big data from the glove and its environment and enable early warning system to be recognized to prevent problems in the assembly line. The ProGlove has already generated a significant amount of buzz in terms of companies reaching out to query implementation in their facilities. Workers already wear gloves on the job, including sensors to detect heat and cold, or vibrations to generate intelligent feed back will make the worker and the business more intelligent.

The story of the development is described in the Make It Wearable – ProGlove article of November 3 by Intel iQ.

We are still looking forward for wearables in healthcare solutions of the similarly advanced types as the above ones.

The potential is enormous as evidenced with A day in the life of a Clinician in the 2020’s vision video from Intel (Sept 30, 2014). See how technology will transform the way physicians treat their patients. Watch this video to learn how wearable’s, rich digital collaboration, and enabling personalised medicine through genomics will be part of a physician’s workflow as we enter the 2020s.

Wind River: Intel’s core technology provider for IoT

December 10, 2014 5:19 pm / Leave a comment

This is representing a much more advanced state than that of leading core network technology vendors Ericsson and Qualcomm under their so called 5G efforts. See the 5G ^2015⇒2019 analytical page of Dec 30, 2014 for details on the latter, as well as the companion posts to this one:

December 5, 2014: New Intel® Quark™ SoCs to enhance the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT (“Moon Island”) portfolio in a year from now article on this same blog to show the chip roadmap for both the IoT and the wearables

December 11, 2014 – January 3, 2015: 2014: 2014: A bleeding edge effort in chips (SoC), COM and software technology (inc. Wind River) for already marketable wearables by Intel has enabled its overall 2015 strategy in IoT and allows to expand its wearable ecosystem with an ‘art of the possible in technology’ article on this same blog to present Intel’s much more advanced state of its 5G effort (albeit not named as such) than either Ericsson’s or Qualcomm’s

Yesterday (Dec 9, 2014) came the news that Wind River Advances IoT With Introduction of Edge Management System with the following highlights and essential parts:

Cloud-based IoT platform enables devices to connect securely to a centralized console, providing device management and solution extensibility.

Wind River Edge Management System an integral part of newly launched Intel^® IoT Platform.

: The Intel IoT Platform — 9-Dec-2014: … is an end-to-end reference model and family of products from Intel—that works with third party solutions—to provide a foundation for seemlessly and securely connecting devices, delivering trusted data to the cloud, and delivering value through analytics (source: Intel® IoT Insights 2014). For More information see the Fact Sheet: Intel Extends and Scales the Internet of Things with New Alliances, System Integrators as well as the Weaving the Connective Tissue for the Internet of Things blog post by Douglas W. Fisher who is corporate vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group for Intel Corporation.

With platform, Wind River provides end-to-end product portfolio for IoT that addresses management of intelligent devices at the edge, to the gateway, into the network, and up into the cloud.

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Edge Management System includes the following key features:

Device management: Remote device management capabilities reduce service costs by enabling remote diagnostics and maintenance.

Security: Secure software updates are integrated with on-device security features such as white listing and integrity monitoring.

Telemetry and analytics: Remote data capture collects sensor and system health data, and transforms them into actionable intelligence.

As part of Intel^® IoT Platform, Edge Management System will be integrated and validated with Intel IoT^® Gateway, which includes Wind River Intelligent Device Platform XT, a complete software development environment that provides pre-integrated and fully tested, ready-to-use components to secure, manage, and connect gateways. In addition, Edge Management System supports a wide variety of hardware and operating systems, providing customers with maximum flexibility in IoT implementations.
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For more information on Wind River Edge Management System, visit http://tinyurl.com/WREMS. To learn more about how Wind River is addressing the opportunities and challenges created by the Internet of Things, visit http://tinyurl.com/iotsite.

About Wind River

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in nearly 2 billion products. Wind River offers the industry’s most comprehensive embedded software portfolio supported by world-class global professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the technology and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

: Wind River Edge Management System — 9-Dec-2014 (source: Intel® IoT Insights 2014). For more information see the Product Overview: Wind River Edge Management System

According to a simultaneous Intel Unifies and Simplifies Connectivity, Security for IoT press release it is part of new integrated hardware and software products based on the Intel® IoT Platform which unifies gateway, connectivity and security components to simply deploy IoT. For more information please read the IoT Insights Event Announces New Intel Internet of Things Portfolio blog post from Intel aimed at the social media.

: The Edge IoT Side of the Intel IoT Platform Reference Architecture — 9-Dec-2014 — MCU & Gateway: Identity Protection + Secure Boot — UPAL = Protocol Abstraction Layer (source: Intel® IoT Insights 2014)

Mike Bell Explains the benefits of the New Intel IoT Platform for Wearables of Dec 9, 2014

Note that my another post published a week ago already provided information about New Intel® Quark™ SoCs to enhance the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT (“Moon Island”) portfolio in a year from now which contains more advanced information (from leaked sources) than was made available in Intel’s press release now. So please read that as well.

: The Cloud Side of the Intel IoT Platform Reference Architecture — 9-Dec-2014 (source: Intel® IoT Insights 2014)

In addition to Wind River Edge Management the Intel press release specifically emphasizes the following new products:

The latest Intel® IoT Gateway will integrate the Wind River Edge Management System via an available agent so gateways can be rapidly deployed, provisioned and managed throughout the life cycle of a system to reduce costs and time to market. In addition, the gateway includes performance improvements, support for lower cost memory options and a broader selection of available communication options. Intel IoT Gateways are currently available from seven ODMs with 13 more releasing systems in early 2015.

April 2, 2014: Intel® Gateway Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) is a family of platforms that enables companies to seamlessly interconnect industrial infrastructure devices and secure data flow between devices and the cloud. It offers key hardware and software building blocks—pre-integrated and validated—resulting in an application-ready platform for unlocking the value of data. We caught up with Adam Burns, director of the IoT Solutions Group at Intel, on Skype*, to get his insights on how the solution came to be, how it works, who can benefit, and the impact on the marketplace. More information on the Skype Video Series:Gateway Solutions site existing since May 17, 2014. More information on the justification of the approach: Making the Internet of Things Real—Part I: Intelligent Gateways as of Febryary 9, 2014.

Oct 1, 2014: Intel IoT Zone Pipeline Monitoring. Kevin Williams, a platform architect in Intel’s intelligent platform solutions group, developed a demonstration complete with drones, infrared sensors and gateway communications to illustrate pipeline monitoring. Williams admits that infrared communications to drones is not feasible for real-world environments, but the purpose of the proof of concept for IDF was to showcase how the coupling of technology from sensors to gateways can be innovative within the critical and established pipeline monitoring industry. Assesment of its real world impact is given in the Technologies Mimic the 5 Senses to Monitor Pipelines Intel Free Press article of October 29, 2014.

To get value out of the data generated in deployments using the Intel® IoT Platform, developers need a powerful yet easy-to-use approach to big data analytics. Intel is expanding its cloud analytics support for IoT Developer Kits to include the Intel® IoT Gateway series, in addition to Intel® Galileo boards and Intel® Edison Modules. Cloud analytics enables IoT application developers to detect trends and anomalies in time series at big data scale.

McAfee, a part of Intel Security, announced Enhanced Security for Intel IoT Gateways in support of the Intel IoT Platform. This pre-validated solution adds advanced security management for gateway devices.

Intel Security also announced that its Enhanced Privacy Identity (EPID) technology will be promoted to other silicon vendors. EPID has anonymity properties, in addition to hardware-enforced integrity, and is included in ISO and TCG standards. The EPID technology provides an on-ramp for other devices to securely connect to the Intel IoT Platform.

At IoT Insights in San Francisco, Intel Security announced Enhanced Security for IoT Gateways in support of the Atlantic Ridge reference model introduced today. This pre-validated solution from McAfee, part of Intel Security, adds advanced security management for gateway devices.Intel also announced that it has taken a major step to enable secure interoperability between third-party IoT products by licensing its Enhanced Privacy Identity (EPID) technology. Previously available only on Intel processors, EPID enables Atlantic Ridge deployments to incorporate sophisticated anonymity technology and hardware-enforced integrity in a manner that is compatible with existing ISO and TCG standards. We believe we have the technology, expertise and reach to bring simple, secure access to consumers worldwide. Intel Security offers a full range of solutions from cloud and data enter to edge and even services creation allowing System Integrators (SI) to offer end-to-end security to their IoT installations. (Source: IntelPR)

Intel Security IoT Insights – Chris Young of Dec 9, 2014

Intel Security’s Chris Young introduces the Intel Security vision for IoT. Intel Security combines the experience and expertise of McAfee with the innovation and proven performance of Intel to make security an essential ingredient in every architecture and on every computing platform. Intel Security’s mission is to give everyone the confidence to live and work safely and securely in the digital world. Through our solutions, platforms and silicon, Intel Security is uniquely positioned to provide a holistic security strategy across all segments enabling the industry to continue to innovate while also giving consumers peace of mind.

For more information please read the IoT Security Overview from Intel’s IoT Insights Day blog post from McAfee.

The Intel API and Traffic Management solution utilizes Intel Mashery solutions to enable creation of building blocks that make it easy to build new software applications. Customers of the Intel IoT Platform today have access to the Intel Mashery API management tools to create data APIs that can be shared internally, externally with partners or monetized as revenue-generating data services for customers.

Intel Services is powering an innovative software-defined approach to scaling the Internet of Things (IoT) across the enterprise with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Announced as part of the Intel® IoT Platform reference architecture, Intel’s API and Traffic Management solution for IoT leverages the ability of Intel Mashery API Management and Intel Mashery API Gateways for Service Creation/Management to enable enterprises with data platforms on which to scale IoT-enablement simply and securely by creating and managing IoT data APIs with endpoints in the cloud, data centers, as well as externally with developers and partners.

Intel Mashery API Management makes it simple for enterprises to connect IoT data from sensors and machines to more endpoints such as cloud analytics platforms and data centers. Leading IoT innovators such as Siemens, Brivo Systems and Carvoyant are using API management powered by Intel to achieve scale in across end-to-end IoT deployments. IoT Data APIs can help improve efficiency, optimize customer experiences and power revenue-generating data services. To learn more about APIs and IoT data management, read our blog or visit the Intel Services’ website. (Source: IntelPR)

For more information see the Powering “Thing” Data at the Scale of “Smart” for IoT Platform Architecture blog post from Mashery as well as the additional information included here from Mashery’s sources:

Siemens – Customer Video of November 25, 2014. Watch how Siemens leverages Intel(r) Mashery(tm) API Management to power its Smart Parking System, coupling consumer mobile apps with data from sensors along the street to increase the availability of parking to ultimately reduce traffic congestion in large cities.

The Next Evolution of API Management of July 22, 2014

Watch Intel Services Chief Strategist and Mashery founder, Oren Michels, introduce the next wave of our API Management platform.

The Evolution of APIs: From Social to Mobile to IoT – Oren Michels, Intel Services of November 12, 2014

The role of APIs in your business is evolving. Oren Michels, Founder of Mashery and now Chief Strategist at Intel Services, discusses reinventing the role of APIs in your organization to adapt to the changing technology landscape. APIs can help you leverage valuable data in your organization with tangible benefits for you, your partners, and your customers alike.

Web as a Real-Time Platform – Tom DeMaria, Intel Services of November 12, 2014

Think of your business, and how you will transform your products into “smart” versions of what you have today. What could something like a fire hydrant do by leveraging 200 million lines of code in the cloud? Think of the data volume and intelligence that needs to pass through those “smart” objects in just one minute. Quality of Service, resiliency, and Machines as a Service are just some of the key concepts leading Fortune 100 companies are building into their IoT playbooks for today and tomorrow. Tom DeMaria, CTO at Intel Services, explains why you should be thinking of these and others for your connected device strategies.

Navigating the Shift to Digital Data – TomTom of Aug 15, 2013

Learn how you can use APIs to empower your business and monetize your data.

TomTom’s Fellow, Location-Based Services, Peter Moeykens shares how TomTom used APIs to move beyond selling just personal navigation devices (PNDs), to also monetizing the very data that powers those devices. With an API strategy, TomTom broke out of a traditional industry and changed the way it does business, not just internally, but with partners and customers as well.

KEY POINTS:
– How to use APIs to uncover new revenue channels for your business and monetize your data
– A real-life use case of how TomTom transformed its business model using APIs and achieved scaling capabilities and better speed to market
– Best practices for quickly integrating APIs into a traditional company

Now about the current state of Wind River offerings for Intel and other companies (mostly in the ARM space) in the IoT (M2M) industry

Overall Positioning as of April 4, 2014 for Wind River: Intelligence in the Internet of Things

Look at the Wind River IoT Infographic of September 20, 2013 as well.

Then A Crayon Simple Look at Wind River presentation published at the same, April 4, 2014 time is giving additional details about the company:

For all that the company reinvented its leading Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) offering with its new VxWorks 7:

The Evolution of VxWorks RTOS. Source: VxWorks7 webinar at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCehgvRMqt4.

Read also the Wind River Reinvents the Real-Time Operating System for the Internet of Things press release of February 26, 2014, as well as the VxWorks 7 Product Overview – Wind River of the same date.

Learn about that briefly as Stephen Olsen Discusses Wind River’s Security Expertise and the IoT on April 29, 2014

Componentization introduced with this major release has allowed an incredible scaling impossible before: from smallest and heavily resource constrained devices with a tiny 20KB microkernel version—that is ideal to tiniest edge IoT devices—to 64-bit, multicore platforms, and even to largest cloud networks:


: The incredible scaling with VxWorks 7 impossible before. Source: The RTOS as the Engine Powering the Internet of Things as of March 7, 2014.

Scaling across applications is also supporting Industrial System Consolidation as presented in this Intel video:

For this and other type of workload consolidation requirements a Virtualization Profile for VxWorks® is provided for VxWorks 7 which extends the scalability capabilities of VxWorks by integrating a real-time embedded, Type 1 hypervisor into the core of VxWorks. Through embedded virtualization, the VxWorks hypervisor allows customers to combine multiple workloads on a single multi-core processor:

: The Virtualization Profile for VxWorks 7. Source: Virtualization Profile for VxWorks Product Overview as of 14-July-2014

Read also the Wind River Integrates Virtualization Technology into Next-Generation RTOS for Internet of Things press release of August 18, 2014.

For demonstration watch Virtualized Industrial Workloads at Embedded World 2014 by Intel as of April 8 which is showing a virtualization software stack with a Linux partition and two instances of Wind River VxWorks:

For the Cloud Networks the company has also what is called “Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server“, a network functions virtualization (NFV) solution designed to help address some of the biggest complexities and issues that telecom providers are facing today:

The Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server Architecture. Source: the brief video given below discussing this type of server as of June 26, 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT7oMpilHRk

At the same time they launched a complete Wind River Titanium Cloud ecosystem program for their NFV solution:

This is a special area of IoT solutions which one needs to understand briefly from Mike Langlois discussing Network Transformation and NFV video recorded at the Mobile World Congress 2014 in the end of February where the NFV solution was announced:

To put all this together you must watch the Wind River IoT – Presentation by Alexander Damisch, Wind River – M2M World Congress 2014 video of May 30, 2014 which is also presenting the whole topic from the point of view: “How Intelligence in Critical Devices is Transforming Business” (highly recommended):

Then visit the Wind River VxWorks site where you can learn about the additional parts of the VxWorks 7 portfolio:

Technology Profiles

Safety Profile for VxWorks NEW
VxWorks with Safety Profile delivers a rich real-time operating environment that helps reduce the costs, risks, and lead times required to create and certify differentiated IEC 61508 SIL 3 industrial systems.
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Virtualization Profile for VxWorks
Virtualization Profile for VxWorks enables consolidation of multiple standalone hardware platforms on a multi-core platform, significantly saving costs and time-to-market.
Download the Product Overview >>

Security Profile for VxWorks
Security Profile for VxWorks delivers an expandable, future-proof solution to safeguard devices, data, and intellectual property in the connected world of Internet of Things.
Download the Product Overview >>

Microkernel Profile for VxWorks
Microkernel Profile for VxWorks is a 20 KB–small RTOS that complements the VxWorks 7 standard kernel, offering unique scalability and a single RTOS for different device classes.

Wind River VxWorks Cert Platform
Wind River® VxWorks Cert Platform is an RTOS for safety critical applications, including those requiring RTCA DO-178B, EUROCAE ED-12B, and IEC 61508 certification evidence.
Download the Product Overview >>

Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform
Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform is an ARINC 653-compliant RTOS with RTCA DO-178B and EUROCAE ED-12B certification evidence for Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA).
Download the Product Overview >>

Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform
Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform implements the Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) system architecture and includes a security evaluation evidence package.
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as well as the ones corresponding to the below figure:

The additional parts of the VxWorks 7 portfolio — April-2014

among others. Note that the Announcing VxWorks 7 – Wind River site of February 26, 2014 is much more complete in that regard (eg. Aerospace Industry Profile + Modularity, Scalability, Connectivity and Graphics Technology Profiles etc.).

Finally more information on operating system offerings for all this:

An in-depth presentation on VxWorks7 as of Aug 29, 2014:

Then about the Linux offering used in the NFV solution:

Wind River’s Commitment to the Yocto Project and Open Source of August 1, 2012:

thereafter about the The Yocto Project as of Sept 12, 2014:

and finally from the Wind River Linux webpage of April 29, 2014:

Wind River Linux Core Platform

Wind River Linux is the industry standard for embedded Linux software. The latest version includes expanded hardware support for the latest ARM, Intel, MIPS, and Power architectures, and is updated with the current Linux kernel, toolchain, and user space.

With the Yocto Project 1.5 open source development infrastructure as its core foundation, Wind River Linux uses the latest Linux kernel as its upstream source to ensure customers have commercially supported access to the newest advancements from the open source community.

Maintaining a roll-your-own embedded Linux project is expensive, time-consuming, and risky. Wind River helps you lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) by taking the cost, time, and risk out of embedded Linux development with a proven commercial solution. Our investment in each Wind River Linux release and our ongoing patch and security vulnerability management equate to over 160 person-years of effort. Our customers benefit from this investment by trusting Wind River to provide their embedded Linux solution.

Wind River provides board support packages (BSPs) for widely adopted processors, including Intel Atom™, Intel second- and third-generation Xeon®/Core™ processors (Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge), Texas Instruments OMAP 3, Freescale QorIQ P4080, LSI Axxia ACP34xx, and Xilinx Zynq.

If the hardware you require for your next project is not supported on our list of Wind River Linux BSPs, the Wind River Professional Services team can help create a custom BSP. Please contact Wind River Sales or your local area account manager for more information.

Read the Product Overview »
Read the Product Note »

Wind River Linux Core Platform – Wind River Linux 6 Architecture. Source Wind River Linux as of 29-April-2014.

New Intel® Quark™ SoCs to enhance the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT (“Moon Island”) portfolio in a year from now

December 4, 2014 1:20 pm / Leave a comment

Follow-ups:
– Wind River: Intel’s core technology provider for IoT [this same blog, Dec 10, 2014]
– 5G ^2015⇒2019 analytical page of this same blog– Incremental Evolutionary Development and Standardization of 5G Technologies for the New Era of Wireless Internet of the 2020’s and 2030’s: An Outlook as of January 1, 2015
– 2014: A bleeding edge effort in chips (SoC), COM and software technology (inc. Wind River) for already marketable wearables by Intel has enabled its overall 2015 strategy in IoT and allows to expand its wearable ecosystem with an ‘art of the possible in technology’ [this same blog, December 11, 2014 – January 3, 2015]

How Intel Technology Enables IoT (July 29, 2014):
The world is undergoing a dramatic transformation, rapidly transitioning from isolated systems to ubiquitous Internet-enabled “things” capable of generating data that can be analyzed to extract valuable information. Commonly referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT), this new reality will enrich everyday life, increase business productivity, improve efficiency, and more. Intel® technology is designed to help you get to market faster and allow users to scale solutions across a variety of platforms. Watch to learn more.

Intel® Gateway Solutions for IoT (June 3, 2014): [the “Moon Island” product portfolio]
Billions of things that affect virtually every aspect of our lives are becoming connected and sharing data in the Internet of Things (IoT). This connectivity is critical to generating the intelligence that can transform business, but how do you get valuable data off of legacy equipment securely, without replacing existing infrastructure? Intel® Gateway Solutions for the Internet of Things connect legacy and new systems, and enable seamless and secure data flow between edge devices and the cloud, unlocking the value of industrial data. Intel, along with McAfee and Wind River, provides pre-integrated, pre-validated hardware and software building blocks, with security, connectivity, and manageability features that speed to time to market and reduce deployment costs.
Learn more about Intel® Gateway Solutions for the IoT: http://intel.com/iotgateways
Learn more about the Intel IoT Solutions: http://intel.com/iot
Join the conversation on Twitter with @Inteliot and #Inteliot

“Liffy Island” for H2’15 and “Seal Beach” for 2016 (source: Myce.com, Nov 19, 2014):

Commonality (only the major ones, for more details see the slides):

Single core, Single thread, @533MHz, 64KB L1 cache, up to 2GB DDR3 RAM
(the existing Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 [Clanton: Q4’13-Q2’14] is only @400MHz, 16KB L1 cache)

Specifics to “Seal Beach” (only the major ones, for more details see the slides above):

Windows OS Support + the ones emphasized by Intel on the slide below

With Quark range of products now completed Intel provided the following design-in recommendations (retyped from an Intel slide with related Intel video inserts by myself):

Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 – 2014 [Clanton: Q4’13-Q2’14] – Fast Time to Market
- Ready for market and shipping for headless applications
- Good for Moon Island Gateways and bolt on!
Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 – 2015 1H
- Design for BOM sensitive telematics applications
- Moon Island SW based Devices design-in—ReUse SW acceleration w validated software stack for non gateways

Liffy Island – 2015 2H
- A fantastic IoT Gateway solution!
- Good for typical long lead design-in of Deeply embedded applications
- Potential IVI companion ship to Broxton solution for Transportation Solution Division
- Great for Indu[stry] w GbE capabilities and hardware switch
Seal Beach – 2016
- A fantastic IoT Gateway solution!
- SSE2 instructions for additional performance, features, and OS support
- Adding Graphics capabilities for general market with right low-cost interfaces to connect to panels and touch screens

More Details

Intel® Gateway Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) (April 8, 2014):Targeting industrial, energy, and transportation markets in the Internet of Things (IoT), Intel intelligent gateway solutions connect legacy and new systems and enable seamless and secure data flow between edge devices and the cloud. In this video from Embedded World 2014, Craig Owen, a solution architect at Intel, demonstrates a model train system equipped with two Intel® Galileo boards based on the Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 application processor that act as sensors for temperature, light, distance, and weight, and connect to the cloud.
For more information on Intel IoT solutions, visit http://intel.com/IoT

Smart Cities USA: San Jose, CA (June 26, 2014)
Fast-growing, future-focused cities like San Jose, California are leading the way in harnessing the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart technologies to help them manage sustainability challenges. San Jose deployed a platform using Intel® Gateway Solutions for the IoT with an Intel® Quark™ processor and third-party sensors to provide real-time data on air quality, with plans to also measure water quality, noise, traffic, temperature and other quality-of-life metrics. Improvements in these systems promise to transform everyday life in U.S. cities and around the world. The joint project was showcased as part of the White House SmartAmerica Challenge.
Learn more about smart cities: http://intel.com/smartcity/.
Learn more about the Internet of Things: http://intel.com/iot/.

Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 – 2014 [Clanton: Q4’13-Q2’14] – Fast Time to Market
- Ready for market and shipping for headless applications
- Good for Moon Island Gateways and bolt on!
- More information: Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 Series Overview

An Intelligent Gateway For Smart Energy (June 30, 2014):
Intel, Tatung and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) are working together in Taiwan on an Internet of Things (IoT) application focused on smart energy savings for businesses. The newly developed intelligent gateway integrates an Intel® Quark™ SoC and combines the I/O board to provide a smart connection between energy management systems and other commercial building devices. Intel, Tatung and ECS have now completed first-step verification with excellent performance on a smart, energy-saving conference room. The next step will be to realize an entire smart building. Learn more about the Internet of Things: http://intel.ly/1qaTy6B.

Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 – 2015 1H
- Design for BOM sensitive telematics applications
- Moon Island SW based Devices design-in—ReUse SW acceleration w validated software stack for non gateways

Intel IoT Demo at IBM Impact 2014 (May 16, 2014):
At IBM Impact 2014, Intel’s Tim Allen or #TechTim introduces Jonathan Skeele from the Intel Internet of Things Group. Jonathan walks us through an IoT demo featuring Intel® Gateway solutions and how sensor data can be used in a real-world train scenario to aid safety performance. Find out more about Intel IoT solutions by visiting http://www.intel.com/iot. Read more on Tim’s blogs on the Big Data Outpost: http://www.tomsitpro.com/tags/big-data-outpost/

Liffy Island – 2015 2H
- A fantastic IoT Gateway solution!
- Good for typical long lead design-in of Deeply embedded applications
- Potential IVI companion ship to Broxton solution for Transportation Solution Division
- Great for Indu[stry] w GbE capabilities and hardware switch
Seal Beach – 2016
- A fantastic IoT Gateway solution!
- SSE2 instructions for additional performance, features, and OS support
- Adding Graphics capabilities for general market with right low-cost interfaces to connect to panels and touch screens

The roll-out of Google’s Material Design and the Android 5.0 Lollipop (Android L)

November 12, 2014 10:09 pm / 1 Comment on The roll-out of Google’s Material Design and the Android 5.0 Lollipop (Android L)

Google’s Material Design: An In-Depth Look | Mashable [Mashable YouTube channel, Nov 3, 2014]: Material design is in part Google’s attempt to instill the benefits of having a similar set of first principles in the Android world.

Official Material Google Keyboard Download and Review [Qbking77 (Tim Schofield) YouTube channel, Nov 12, 2014]: Here is the official Google Keyboard update that brings material design to the keyboard! This APK below is signed by Google, so it is official. You do not need to be on 5.0 Lollipop to install this! Let me know if you’re using this keyboard or not. Download: http://qbking77.com/?p=3474

Remarks: Get Google’s New Material Design Apps, Even If You Don’t Have Lollipop [Lifehacker, Nov 10, 2014]

Google Maps, Calendar, and Gmail are all getting big updates, and you can check them out now through these leaked APKs. The best part is that you don’t need Lollipop to download them. Gmail requires 4.0, Calendar requires 4.0.3, and to grab Maps you’ll need 4.3. From your device, click the download button on each page. When the download is complete you’ll be automatically prompted to install the updates with just a couple of taps.

Calendar 5.0-1554015 | via Android Police

Gmail 5.0 (1556543) | via Android Police

Maps 9.0.0 (Android 4.3+) | via Android Police

Wednesday Android Update – Belated “Material Design All The Things” Edition! (UPDATED! x3) [Lifehacker, Oct 30, 2014]

… Google Play Movies, Google Play Games, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Wallet,Google+ and Camera all got updated to Material Design. All of them. That only leaves a handful of stragglers who haven’t been updated to Material Design, as far as Google apps go. … End of Remarks

The Gmail app for Android [Google YouTube channel, Nov 4, 2014]: The Gmail app for Android now has a more modern style, sleeker transitions, and a few other handy improvements. http://www.gmail.com/app

The Apps Show Asks – What is Material Design? [Google for Work YouTube channel, Nov 6, 2014]: If you’ve heard of Material Design, the new Google design standard, you may have wondered how it’ll affect you as a user. Check out this interview with Lucas Pettinati, head of user experience research, for a quick overview.

The new Google Calendar app for Android [Google YouTube channel, Nov 3, 2014]: We’re introducing a brand new Google Calendar app. It’s designed to be a helpful assistant, so you can spend less time managing your day, and more time enjoying it. Learn more at http://www.google.com/landing/calendar/

The Inbox that works for you [Google YouTube channel, Oct 22, 2014]: We’re introducing something new. It’s called Inbox. Years in the making, Inbox is by the same people who brought you Gmail, but it’s not Gmail: it’s a completely different type of inbox, built to fit your life. Come try it with us.

DevBytes: What’s new in Android 5.0 Lollipop [Google Developers YouTube channel, Oct 17, 2014] ⇒ see also the official Android – 5.0 Lollipop version page of Oct 14, 2014 as well as the Material Design site of the Android Developers from Google

Ankur Kotwal introduces the developer highlights of Android 5.0 Lollipop in this DevByte. These are as follows:

00:14 Material Design – http://google.com/design/spec
00:54 Enhanced Notifications – http://youtu.be/Uiq2kZ2JHVY
01:56 WebView updates
02:22 Project Volta – http://youtu.be/KzSKIpJepUw
03:03 Android Runtime (ART) – http://source.android.com/devices/tec…
03:21 64-bit support – http://d.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk
03:49 Concurrent documents on Overview
04:15 Android Work – http://youtu.be/FbVWtYPpzIs
04:36 Advanced camera capabilities – http://goo.gl/aXXTJ9
05:05 Game development – http://youtu.be/qW3Ufg1JNRE
05:45 Connectivity – http://youtu.be/2fZThdNbHcQ
06:24 What’s next – http://d.android.com/about/versions/a…

… I look forward to seeing your beautiful material design apps on screens everywhere. END

Android 5.0 Lollipop on the Moto X 2nd Generation!! [Qbking77 (Tim Schofield) YouTube channel, Nov 8, 2014]: Wow. Motorola has released Android 5.0 Lollipop on the Moto X 2nd Generation. Nexus 5 owners are still waiting for the official release. Let me know what you think!

Google Maps Material Design Review and Download! [Qbking77 (Tim Schofield) YouTube channel, Nov 5, 2014]: Continuing with the roll out of Google Apps and Android 5.0 Lollipop’s material design, Google maps has been released! The new Google Maps Material design brings an entirely new look to one of my favorite Google apps.

Material design [Google Developers YouTube channel, June 5, 2014]: Design is the art of considered creation. Our goal is to satisfy the diverse spectrum of human needs. As those needs evolve, so too must our designs, practices, and philosophies. We challenged ourselves to create a visual language for our users that synthesizes the classic principles of good design with the innovation and possibility of technology and science.

A material metaphor is the unifying theory of a rationalized space and a system of motion. Our material is grounded in tactile reality, inspired by our study of paper and ink, yet open to imagination and magic.

This is material design.

(Music: “Fa Fa Fa” by Datarock)

DesignBytes: Intro To Material Design [Google Developers YouTube channel, Sept 12, 2014]: These days, UI designers need to be thinking about phones, tablets, laptops, TVs, smartwatches, and beyond. In this DesignByte we talk about how Google designers have been working on making cross-platform and multi-screen design easier. We wanted to build a design system that felt at home on every screen, from the smallest watch to the largest TV.

How Google designed Android L [The Verge YouTube channel, June 27, 2014]: Google has a new metaphor for how design works across all of its properties, including Android L, Chrome OS, and the web. It’s based on a fictitious material and it’s going to make everything the company produces more coherent and easier to use.

FORM SF 2014: Fireside Chat Highlights [Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 5, 2014]: FORM kicked off to a fireside chat about design and technology between Matias Duarte, VP of Design at Google, and Joshua Topolsky, Bloomberg Media’s Chief Digital Content Officer. In this highlights clip, catch some of the primary discussion points from the conference opener.

FORM — Conversations about design & technology hosted by Google Nov 4+5, 2014
…

About

FORM is intended to be a wide-angle examination of the intersection between design and technology. We are bringing together design thinkers and practitioners to have meaningful conversations over a day and a half of panels, talks, workshops and networking. The event is invite-only.

Designers from

2×4, 30 weeks, About.me, Avocado, Branch, Facebook, Framer, General Assembly, Invision, Matter, Medium, Pinterest, Pitchfork, Pixate, Relative Wave, Sound United, Storehouse, The New York Times, Uber.

Schedule

Tue Nov 4

9:30 Fireside Chat with Matias Duarte & Joshua Topolsky
[full video on Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 6, 2014]

10:15 Panel: Visual Storytelling

11:30 Talk: A Cube, a Satellite and Glass

1:15 Panel: Design Education [Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 11, 2014]

2:00 Panel: Talent & Hiring [Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 11, 2014]

3:15 Panel: Design Tooling [Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 11, 2014]

4:00 Workshop: Science Fiction & Design

4:00 Workshop: Wearables Design

4:00 Workshop: Futurecraft

Wed Nov 4+5

9:15 Talk: Innovation & Invention [Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 11, 2014]

10:15 Panel: Atoms & Bits [Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 11, 2014]

11:15 Panel: Startup Design [Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 11, 2014]

12:00 Closing Remarks [Google Developers YouTube channel, Nov 11, 2014]

Intel to lead the CTE revolution: the first milestone has been achieved with the delivery of Rockchip-Intel XMM6321 dual chip SoC solution for rock bottom $40 3G smartphones and phablets, ready for phone and tablet products of sub $75 and more, with Intel’s SoFIA cores, HSPA+ and global LTE modems from December on

November 12, 2014 12:55 pm / Leave a comment

Explanation: CTE— China Technical Ecosystem which was first presented as an ODM and supply chain concept in my earlier posts IDF14 Shenzhen: Intel is levelling the Wintel playing field with Android-ARM by introducing new competitive Windows tablet price points from $99 – $129 [this same blog, April 4-14, 2014] and Intel CTE initiative: Bay Trail-Entry V0 (Z3735E and Z3735D) SoCs are shipping next week in $129 Onda (昂达) V819i Android tablets—Bay Trail-Entry V2.1 (Z3735G and Z3735F) SoCs might ship in $60+ Windows 8.1 tablets from Emdoor Digital (亿道) in the 3d quarter [this same blog, April 11-14, 2014].

Rockchip-Intel XMM6321 dual SoC chip solution with ARM Cortex-A5 cores:

Rockchip-Intel XMM6321 2-chip 3G SoC solution -- 13-Oct-2014

which is also the basis of the upcoming SoFIA 3G, SoFIA 3G-R and SoFIA LTE solutions:

SoFIA Intel smart phone platform roadmap --15-Aug-2014

From Intel在进步，怎奈何平板行业时事艰辛 (Intel is advancing, but what are the current hardships of the tablet industry) [Pad News, Aug 15, 2014] when referring to a Weibu (微步) press release.

Weibu shows Intel/Rockchip XMM6321 dual-core ARM Cortex-A5 with 3G [ARMdevices.net YouTube channel, Nov 5, 2014]

Weibu is a PCB Design House, usually they mostly worked on designing x86 dektop motherboards using Intel x86 and AMD x86, but now with Intel making ARM in the Rockchip XMM6321, Weibu now also works on this ARM PCB design, to be used in very cheap 7″ 3-G connected Android tablets to be sold around the world. Take a tour here in their design house.

From 全新转型看大陆IC厂商本届香港展热点 (New transformation of city IC manufacturers are this year‘s Hong Kong Show hotspots) [press release, Oct 13, 2014] as corrected by XXM6321, the solution of the world most highly integrated 3G chip appeared part of an English press release of Nov 3

[At the exhibition] Rockchip exposed the outcome of their mutual efforts—XMM6321, the world highest integrated 3G SOC solution in the press conference. It was designed mainly for entry level phone and phablet of 3.5 to 7 inches. XMM6321 has entered volume production stage in late October.

XMM6321 is an WCDMA SOC solution which supports two card two standby (3G&GSM) and integrated WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, PMU and some other components. XMM’s biggest highlight is its high integration, and it has three characteristics named as “one high and two low”:

Unlike most of other WCDMA solutions which still use 4 chips, XMM6321 has integrated WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, PMU and other components with only two chips. High integration would help terminal device manufactures reduce using of PCBA components during producing. It could also make the technology perfect and accelerate the production. Two chips make XMM6321’s damage rate much lower that other solutions which adopt four chips. Meanwhile, high integration brings better stability. Both 3G and GSM could support four frequency band, and OEM can match the frequency band flexibly.

Secondly, the power consumption of XMM6321 is low, and it has stable and mature baseband technique.XMM6321 adopted Intel baseband (Infineon), and the power consumption is very low. This baseband technique was worldwide certificated and maturely applied (Apple’s original iPhone adopts this baseband technique). In consideration of different recognition criteria in different countries and areas, Baseband normally has very high demand on frequency band, signal, sensitivity, stability and covering power. The stability of Baseband has brought Rockchip XMM6321 huge competitive advantage to step into the globle communication field.

Thirdly, the cost was greatly reduced, and the time of mass produce is shorten

Based on the 2 in 1 high integration, not only the produce process is much more easier but also the stability is higher, and these all could save the manufacturer more cost, and ensure the manufacture’s products coming into the market quickly.

Roadmap of Rockchip’s 3G/LTE 4G chip first appeared.

Rockchip published the detailed roadmap of products. It is understood that, Rockchip would launch SOFIA 3G series and SOFIA LTE series. All chips would adopt CPU of 64-bit computing and be optimized aiming at the Android L system platform. It is estimated that products of these series would come into the market at the first quarter of 2015. Five or six chips would appear in consumer market.

By publishing the brand new 3G/4G LTE communication solution, Rockchip has completed the leap transition and stepped into a new frontier. With more mature Baseband and other technique advantages, Rockchip is marching into the communication market.

From Rockchip and Intel Published 3G Communication Chip XMM6321 jointly [Rockchip press release, Oct 29, 2014]

In Hong Kong Electronic Exhibition (autumn) on October 13, 2014, Rockchip and Intel officially published 3G communication chip XMM6321 on press conference. As the world most highly integrated 3G chip, XXM6321 adopts Turnkey, and it has the baseband that has the most extensive coverage in the world. XXM 6321 mainly focus on the phone and phablet market of entry level, and it has the characteristic of “one high and two low”, namely high integration, low power consumption and low cost. There were many mass-produced terminal products released in thisconference, which would strongly shock the communication market. The first official appearance of XMM6321 made Rockchip complete brand new transition and step into new area. About ten days after the conference, phablet adopted XMM6321 has received an international order. The order belongs to Rockchip’s partner Skyth-Tek, and the buyer is from Touchmate, one of the most famous tablet brands in Dubai.

Intel makes ARM Processor in $40 Rockchip XMM6321 Tablets at Skyth-Tek PCB Design House [ARMdevices.net YouTube channel, Oct 30, 2014]

Intel is making their first Dual-core ARM Cortex-A5 processor with Rockchip called the Rockchip XMM6321 highly integrated 2-chip with baseband/RF/analog/GPS/WiFi/Bluetooth in the second chip, with an ARM Mali-400 GPU, targeted at sub-$40 3G-enabled Phablets, manufactured at TSMC (because the Intel Fab doesn’t manufacture 28nm anymore) and designed by the team coming from Intel’s Infineon ARM baseband group, here the Rockchip XMM6321 is being launched at the Skyth-Tek PCB Design House in Shenzhen China. Where they are now launching mass production of these Intel/Rockchip $40 ARM Phablets together with the ODM Firstview for 3K MOQ [http://www.efirstview.com/]. You can read the press release about XMM6321 here.

I have been predicting that this moment would happen for years. The next step is for Intel to also manufacture some high-end ARM Processors for Rockchip in their own 14nm Fab.

The Android Phablet market is growing very rapidly, the extremely affordable Phablet may become the first or main device that a Billion people use to access the Internet, as the potential market growth for the low-cost Android Phablet is so huge, especially in developing countries, it’s only normal that Intel must try to be a part of that market by letting their Infineon baseband division release this ARM Processor and to do it in partnership with Rockchip, as Rockchip has experience over the past 3-4 years of the explosive Tablet market growth in powering millions of affordable ARM Powered devices for the international mass market.

ACT Factory Tour, XMM6321 $30 Rockchip/Intel ARM Cortex-A5 3G Phone [ARMdevices.net YouTube channel, Oct 22, 2014]

ACT is one of the first factories to be starting mass production of the new $30 Smartphone on Dual-core ARM Cortex-A5 with 3G Infineon baseband made by Rockchip and Intel at TSMC. ACT Industrial makes about 10 thousand tablets per day, they can ramp that up as they plan to start the Rockchip XMM6321 entry-level Smartphone production here in the next week.

From 英特尔广泛携手合作伙伴释放平板产业创新动力 (Intel’s extensive cooperation with partners unleash the innovation power of the tablet industry) [Intel China press release, Aug 6, 2014]

In the fourth quarter of this year Intel will go around computing platform innovations one step further. It plans to launch two major blockbuster platforms:

One is aimed at the entry-level and high performance/price ratio [cost-effective] markets [in the form of] the first integrated mobile system-on-chip (SoC) platform—the SoFIA solution;

Second, the new 14 nm Cherry Trail platform, offering leading computing performance, superior graphics capabilities, and will significantly improve battery life and user experience [i.e. targeted at the high-end market].

Intel's 14nm Cherry Trail platform of 2015 offering a number of impovement over current Bay Trail -15-Aug-2014

Intel’s 14nm Cherry Trail platform of 2015 is offering a number of impovements over the current Bay Trail while power consumption is still under control with less than 2W. From Intel在进步，怎奈何平板行业时事艰辛 (Intel is advancing, but what are the current hardships of the tablet industry) [Pad News, Aug 15, 2014] when referring to a Weibu (微步) press release.

Intel Cherry Trail related slides from IDF Fall 2014 in San Francisco (Sept 9-11):

Cherry Trail to connect withe leading communications platforms from IDF 2014

Cherry Trail to connect with the leading communications platforms (from IDF Fall 2014, Sept 9-11)

Cherry Trail - Amazing SoC Roadmap with Innovations for Years to Come from IDF 2014

Cherry Trail – Amazing SoC Roadmap with Innovations for Years to Come (from IDF Fall 2014, Sept 9-11)

Earlier (Nov’13) information which is still the only one available:

Feature Improvements in Cherry Trail-T -- 15-Nov-2013

Feature Improvements in Cherry Trail-T (from Mullins may need a mulligan: Here’s a look at Intel’s Cherry Trail-T [VR-ZONE, Nov 15, 2013])

Graphics Feature Comparison Bay Trail-T vs. Cherry Trail-T (from First look at new features on Cherry Trail’s GPU [VR-ZONE, Nov 17, 2013])

Intel President: Why we missed the mobile revolution [Fortune Magazine YouTube channel, July 14, 2014]: Renee James discusses internal changes in Intel’s business models and explains why the chip-maker didn’t catch on to mobile earlier on.

From Why Innovation Waits for Nobody, Stops for Nothing [IQ by Intel “tech culture magazine“, June 4, 2014]

James [Intel President Renee James on stage at Computex] made the first phone call on a smartphone built with Intel’s forthcoming system-on-a-chip codenamed SoFIA. She pointed out that that the dual core chip will be manufactured by nearby chip manufacturing foundry, TSMC. SoFIA will have integrated 3G and starts shipping to phone makers by the end of this year. A quad-core and 4G LTE versions shipping in the first half of next year.

From: Intel delivering the future of Mobile Experience at Computext Taipei 2014 [event fact sheet, June 4, 2014]

Foxconn also said it plans to deliver mobile devices based on Intel’s new integrated mobile SoC, codenamed SoFIA. To further extend its support from the industry, Intel is expanding its reference design program for tablets to include a turnkey solution for phones based on SoFIA. Intel’s reference design program provides master reference designs, tools and brand support to help partners innovate on Intel architecture.

Intel Reboots Mobile Approach Ahead of Budget Chip Launch [Video | Reuters.com, Oct 15, 2014]: While PC sales look healthy at last, the world’s top chipmaker is still struggling to break into the smartphone market. Intel China executive WK Tan* outlines plans to power $75 dollar handsets.
[*WK Tan VP, Intel Architecture Group & GM, Mobile and Communications Group, China]

Earnings from Intel – the world’s top chipmaker – back in good standing at last.

A recovery in traditional PC sales powering Q3 profits of 3.3 billion dollars, and revenues of 14.6 billion dollars, both slightly above market forecasts.

That rebound pushing Intel shares up about 25 percent this year so far. But the silicon producer has a serious problem: mobile.

The firm’s tablet and smartphone unit bringing in a paltry one million dollars in revenue, a drop in the bucket for this fast-growing segment.

Intel’s game plan to address that? Generous subsidies for manufacturers who use its tablet chip, and tie-ups with Chinese mobile chip designers like Spreadtrum and Rockchip.

That should help smooth the entry of Intel’s new SoFIA platform which will allow for very aggressively priced smartphones, according to Intel China executive WK Tan.

[WK Tan, Vice President of Mobile and Communications Group, Intel]:
“We think we’re going to hit the market in quarter one next year. You should be able to see phones on shelf. And how cheap it’s going to be will depend on our customers because with the SoFIA platform you could actually make a range of phones and tablets. We should be able to see phones that is about below 75 dollars.”

[John Gordon, Reuters Reporter]:
“So the 3G part comes out first for SoFIA and then you’ve got the 4G coming up after that. Is that going to be Q2 2015?”

[WK Tan, Vice President of Mobile and Communications Group, Intel]:
“We’re going to have the first version of the SoFIA LTE, which is a 4G product that you’re talking about. We’re going to release a first reference design somewhere in June, in early June, that is the target.”

[John Gordon, Reuters Reporter]:
“Now historically Intel’s been vertically integrated, you’ve now bought a stake in Spreadtrum just as this chip’s coming out. So does this point to a new attitude within Intel?”

[WK Tan, Vice President of Mobile and Communications Group, Intel]:
“I think one of the things that we could probably learn from our Chinese partners is that, maybe it’s the flexibility perhaps, and the speed at which they address the market. I think this is something that is not within our DNA, but to work with accomplished players like this in a market that has already achieved some success in the areas where they participate, I think this can only be good for us as we strive to be better.”

[John Gordon, Reuters Reporter]:
“Right. We’re hearing reports of some softening of demand within the smartphone space and tablet space within China. Do you get a sense that is the case?”

[WK Tan, Vice President of Mobile and Communications Group, Intel]:
“The – we are not seeing that much of a softening in the smartphones. Tablet maybe, you know there’s a little bit of softening in the Q1 and Q2, but things are kind of picking up in Q3. That’s what we are seeing. And smartphones, I’m not hearing any drastic reduction or something like this. In fact, we believe that the entry value space will continue to gain quite significantly. As you can read, some of the Chinese players are gaining places in the world-wide, so called, smartphone or tablet ranking.”

[John Gordon, Reuters Reporter]:
“So you made a target of 40 million for tablets I think this year. Are you on track for that, and what kind of target will you have for next year?”

[WK Tan, Vice President of Mobile and Communications Group, Intel]:
“Yes. We are definitely on track with the 40 million, you know. As for the target for next year, I think this is still being discussed.”

Intel may stop providing subsidies for mobile solutions; switch to providing support through different methods [DIGITIMES, Oct 21, 2014]

With better-than-expected performance in the third quarter of 2014, some market watchers have speculated that Intel will stop providing subsidies for its mobile device solutions to eliminate losses from the business; however, sources from PC players believe Intel is likely to continue offering subsidies to some of its larger clients, such as Asustek Computer, through different methods in order to maintain orders.

Asustek responded by stating it does not comment on market speculation, while Intel said that the company’s has not announced specific timing for the discontinuation of contra revenues for the mobile segment, but is now focused on cost reduction for both the platform and the overall platform BOM. Intel is adding SoCs (SoFIA) that are designed specifically for the segment to its roadmap and expects related product- and bill of materials-costs to decline meaningfully as new, more cost-competitive products are introduced.

The sources pointed out that Intel has been aggressively providing subsidies and assistance on technology and marketing to first-tier brand vendors as well as white-box players in China, looking to expand its share in the mobile device market. Asustek is currently the largest client of Intel’s handset and tablet platforms.

In 2014, Asustek placed orders for over 7.5 million Atom processors with Intel for its ZenFone- series smartphones. Including orders for its MeMO Pad 7/8, Transformer Pad, Fonepad, Windows 8-based tablets, T100 2-in-1 and PadFone X mini, Intel received at least 15 million CPU orders from the Taiwan-based vendor in the year.

The sources believe that Intel is mainly stopping its subsidies to China’s white-box players as its cooperation with Tsinghua Unigroup should no longer require the CPU giant to promote its products in China.

Spreadtrum Communications, a CPU subsidiary of Tsinghua, will develop x86-based SoCs jointly with Intel and will also be responsible for selling the CPUs in China. With Spreadtrum’s existing channels and clients, Intel will not need to offer subsidies to attract partners in China.

Since orders from first-tier brand vendors are still handled by Intel, the sources believe that the CPU maker is unlikely to risk losing high-volume orders from these clients.

The sources pointed out that Asustek is expected to ship at least 15 million ZenFone smartphones in 2015. Asustek is set to announce its second-generation ZenFone-series devices in the first quarter of 2015.

From Intel CEO sees China chip partners moving away from rival technology [Reuters, Nov 11, 2014]

Intel Corp Chief Executive Brian Krzanich expects new semiconductor partners in China to migrate to the U.S. chipmaker’s architecture within a few years and give up on ARM technology more widely used in smartphones and tablets.

Intel this year signed deals with Rockchip and Spreadtrum Communications to use Intel’s technology to make chips for low-cost smartphones and tablets aimed at China’s fast-growing consumer market.

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While the agreements with Intel do not prevent the Chinese chipmakers from continuing to make ARM-based chips, Krzanich told reporters late on Monday he believes that within two or three years they will exclusively use Intel’s architecture.

With leading mobile chipmaker Qualcomm Inc offering high-end chips based on ARM and Taiwan’s MediaTek attacking the Chinese market with inexpensive chips also designed using ARM, adopting Intel’s architecture and cutting-edge factories offer a way to differentiate with better performance and features, Krzanich said.

“If you’re a small guy trying to compete, it’s tough to be in that battle.”

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Intel and Rockchip are working on an Intel-branded tablet SoC, with Rockchip contributing expertise on connectivity, graphics and its experience in China’s domestic market.

Spreadtrum, as part of a deal by Intel to buy 20 percent of its parent company for $1.5 billion, is working with Intel on SoCs expected out next year.

Since they are relatively small, both Chinese chipmakers probably do not have the resources to make separate chips based on Intel and ARM technology over the long term, Krzanich said.

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Intel Enters into Strategic Agreement with Rockchip to Accelerate, Expand Portfolio of Intel-Based Solutions for Tablets [press release, May 27, 2014]

Intel Corporation today announced it has entered into a strategic agreement withRockchip to expand the breadth of and accelerate the rate at which it brings its Intel® architecture and communications-based solutions to market for a range of entry-level Android* tablets worldwide.

Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will deliver an Intel-branded mobile SoC platform. The quad-core platform will be based on an Intel® Atom™ processor core integrated with Intel’s 3G modem technology.

Expanding the offerings in Intel’s SoFIA family of integrated mobile SoC platforms for entry and value Android mobile devices, the new quad-core SoFIA 3G part is expected to be available in the first half of 2015. It will be targeted primarily at entry and value tablets. The Intel SoFIA family was added to Intel’s mobile product roadmap late last year and includes Intel’s first integrated applications processor and communications platform.

As the tablet market continues to expand with greater choice of screen size, form factor and price, the strategic agreement with Rockchip also enables Intel to ramp new customers with a broader portfolio of products faster.

“The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel’s commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in the global mobile market by more quickly delivering a broader portfolio of Intel architecture and communications technology solutions,” said Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO. “We are excited to work with Rockchip. With today’s announcement we’ve added yet another derivative to the Intel SoFIA family, and we expect to have them all in market before the middle of 2015. We are moving with velocity to grow Intel’s offerings for the growing global tablet market.”

The strategic agreement with Intel expands Rockchip’s product portfolio with the addition of the performance and flexibility of the Intel architecture and leading communications solutions.

“We are always looking for innovative ways to differentiate our product portfolio, and the first-of-its-kind collaboration with Intel helps us do this,” said Min Li, Rockchip CEO. “The combination of Intel’s leading architecture and modem technology with our leading mobile design capability brings greater choice to the growing global market for mobile devices in the entry and value segments.”

With today’s announcement, the Intel SoFIA family is now made up of three different offerings, including the dual-core 3G version expected to ship in the fourth quarter of this year, the quad-core 3G version that is expected to ship in the first half of 2015, and the LTE version, also due in the first half of next year.

Pricing for the quad-core SoFIA 3G part will be disclosed at a later date, and like the broader Intel SoFIA family, it is expected to be price competitive. Under the agreement, both Intel and Rockchip will sell the new part to OEMs and ODMs, primarily into each company’s existing customer base.

Intel and Tsinghua Unigroup Collaborate to Accelerate Development and Adoption of Intel-based Mobile Devices [press release, Sept 25, 2014]: Intel to Invest Up to RMB 9 Billion (US$1.5 Billion) in Semiconductor Business under Tsinghua Unigroup

Intel Corporation and Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd. (“Tsinghua Unigroup”), an operating subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings Co., Ltd., a solely state-owned limited liability corporation funded by Tsinghua University in China, today jointly announced that both parties have signed a series of agreements. The purpose of the agreements is to expand the product offerings and adoption for Intel-based mobile devices in China and worldwide by jointly developing Intel® Architecture and communications-based solutions for mobile phones. Intel also has agreed to invest up to RMB 9 billion (about US$1.5 billion) for a minority stake of approximately 20 percent of the holding company under Tsinghua Unigroup which will own Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.

Both Spreadtrum and RDA, controlled by Tsinghua Unigroup, are leading fabless semiconductor companies in China, which develop mobile chipset platforms for smart phones, feature phones and other consumer electronics products, supporting 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards.

“China is now the largest consumption market for smartphones and has the largest number of Internet users in the world,” said Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO. “These agreements with Tsinghua Unigroup underscore Intel’s 29-year-long history of investing in and working in China. This partnership will also enhance our ability to support a wider range of mobile customers in China and the rest of the world by more quickly delivering a broader portfolio of Intel architecture and communications technology solutions.”

Mr. Zhao Weiguo, Chairman and President of Tsinghua Unigroup, added, “It has become a national priority of China to grow its semiconductor industry. The strategic collaboration between Tsinghua Unigroup and Intel ranges from design and development to marketing and equity investments, which demonstrate Intel’s confidence in the Chinese market and strong commitment to Chinese semiconductor industry, which will accelerate the technology development and further strengthen the competitiveness and market position of Chinese semiconductor companies.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. will jointly create and sell a family of Intel Architecture-based system-on-chips (SoCs). Initial products will be available beginning in the second half of next year and will be Intel Architecture-based SoCs sold by both companies.

“The adoption of Intel’s architecture technology will enable us to accelerate the development of mobile SoCs that expand the breadth of our portfolio, benefiting handset makers addressing both China and the global market,” said Dr. Leo Li, Chairman and CEO of Spreadtrum. “We are pleased to embark on collaboration with Intel around these new product offerings.”

The companies expect Intel’s investment to close in early 2015.

The Empire Reboots — Can C.E.O. Satya Nadella Save Microsoft? | Vanity Fair, Oct 27, 2014

October 28, 2014 12:39 pm / Leave a comment

First it is EXTREMELY important to understand Microsoft [new] CEO’s Global Strategy
[CNBC YouTube channel, Oct 20, 2014]: CNBC’s Jon Fortt speaks to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about where he sees strength in the global economy and how it impacts their international strategy.

Nadella was born in Hyderabad, India. His childhood was an exercise in managing dissonance. “My mom was a professor of Sanskrit, and my dad was a Marxist economist. They were two very contrasting personalities,” he says. “They had their ideological wars, and I got to ignore both of them. It was a fun upbringing, I would say.” (Both his parents still live in India.)

Note that with such an upbringing is more than funny that he got a one-time retention stock award of $79.8M recently.

In addition to this here are a very few other excerpts from the VERY long Vanity Fair article with links to in-depth and other posts of mine (from last week) explaining additional things:

Over the last decade, as the biggest force in tech history hurtled toward irrelevance (albeit lucratively), a few blamed Microsoft’ s woes on founder Bill Gates, while most pointed to his successor as C.E.O., Steve Ballmer. Bethany McLean charts the breakdown of their relationship, the growing dissatisfaction with Ballmer, and the challenges and opportunities facing its third C.E.O., Satya Nadella, as Gates returns to the fold.

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When I ask them what excites them most, Nadella looks at Gates. “You want me to start?” “Sure,” Gates replies. This is, says Nadella, “a great world. It’s not lost on a few other people who are capable of exploiting that world. But the thing . . . what is scarce in all of this abundance is human attention. And whoever does the best job of building the right software experiences to give both organizations and individuals time back so that they can get more out of their time, that’s the core of this company—that’s the soul. That’s what Bill started this company with. That’s the Office franchise. That’s the Windows franchise. We have to re-invent them. . . . That’s where this notion of re-inventing productivity comes from.”

“Is software the most exciting industry in the world?,” Gates says, taking up the thread. “Absolutely. You know, when it comes to vision, speech, handwriting, screens that are going to be pervasive, that are going to let you navigate information in rich new ways, in ways that you understand your customer, what’s going on with your products. . . . We’re not even a third of the way towards empowering workers even to the dream that goes back to the start of the company.” He adds, “The opportunity is pretty incredible. And the original idea of having great software people and broad software products and Office being the primary tool that people look to across all these devices, that’ s as true today and as strong as ever.”

“The way I think about success is our relevance,” says Nadella.

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[The Past]

Steve Ballmer on leaving Microsoft, relationship with Bill Gates: “We’ve dusted-up many times”, on His Biggest Regret: “doing hardware earlier [for being] more effective in phone business” AND on Amazon: “They Make No Money.” [this same blog, Oct 25, 2014]

“Steve [Ballmer] will never get the credit he’s due,” a former executive says. “He was brilliant—brilliant—in finding ways to harvest more money from Windows and Office.”

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“He [Bill Gates] didn’t know how to let me be C.E.O., and I didn’t know how to do it,” says Ballmer. At the urging of both their wives and Microsoft’s board of directors, the two men patched things up at what Ballmer calls a “really awkward, terrible dinner” at the Bellevue Club in early 2001. It was like My Dinner with Andre, Ballmer says, referring to the 1981 film in which two old friends slowly realize they have radically different worldviews. They officially made up, and Gates turned the company over to Ballmer. “I’m not going to need him for anything,” Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal when Gates finally left completely. “Use him, yes, need him, no.”

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Many people liken the relationship between Ballmer and Gates to a marriage. “It is like couples that get divorced and hook up again,” says someone who knows both men. “Trying to explain the relationship from the outside is a waste of chronology.”

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Ballmer often said that he wanted to stay as C.E.O. until his youngest son graduated from high school, in 2017. But he says today that that changed. “I always think more like a shareholder than a paid C.E.O.,” he says, pulling out his performance review from 2010, in which he told the board that his target departure date was “no less than three years, but no more than five”—in other words, between 2013 and 2015.

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The discord between Gates and Ballmer, both of whom were still on the board, did not make for a pleasant search for a new C.E.O., although, in truth, it might have been difficult anyway. Just consider the other ingredients: Disagreement over whether the new C.E.O. needed to be an engineer. Disagreement over whether or not an outsider was needed. A board that felt it had been in thrall to the former C.E.O.’s for far too long now wanting to exert its own control. A former C.E.O. who could not brook not being in control of what he still considers his company. And the incredible difficulty of finding a person who both could and would want to run Microsoft.

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The funny thing is that Gates, who has been passionately committed to his foundation, didn’t step away from his former company. Instead he decided to step back in. Not for roughly one-third of his time, Gates says. “We say 30 percent,” he corrects. “He deeply believes he can bring something to Microsoft that no one else can,” says someone who knows him well.

Will Steve Ballmer go quietly? He did go, but it remains to be seen how quiet he’ll be. He says he has seven big things he’s doing, including learning Hebrew, getting in shape, figuring out his civic duties, running the Clippers—and managing his stake in Microsoft, which he says is 65 to 70 percent of his net worth. He has no intention of selling, partly out of loyalty and partly because he thinks that Microsoft is a good investment.

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The Nadella Era

For the current in-depth assesment: Microsoft is ready to become a dominant force in cloud computing with superior cloud offerings, a Windows ecosystem under complete renewal, first signs of Surface-Lumia-Xbox successes on the market, and strong interest in technology partnerships by other industry leaders [this same blog, Oct 24, 2014]

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Nadella, despite his long career at Microsoft—and his similarities to Gates—is in fundamental ways a break from the past. He has had his executive team read Nonviolent Communication.(The title speaks for itself.) He’s a genuinely nice person, with a wide smile that cannot be faked. He is liked by people who have worked for him, by his peers, and by those who were above him. “Everyone likes Satya,” says one former Microsoft executive. “You cannot dislike Satya. Bill loves him. Steve loves him. Satya is clearly a morally good person.” “You want to get behind him,” says Greg Sullivan, who is the director of the Windows Phone division.

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He quotes Nietzsche and other philosophers, but his real love is poetry, because “poets can take perhaps any philosophical point or any point of life and can compress it into a few lines,” he says. T. S. Eliot and Keats are among his favorite poets, and he also enjoys Urdu poetry. “Growing up in India, once you started engineering school you really don’t have any liberal-arts education,” he says. “Somehow I got hooked onto saying, Look, the one good way to renew yourself is to read good literature and good poetry . . . and I think my mom’s been a great influence on it.”

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Part of why Microsoft failed with devices is that competitors upended its business model. Google doesn’t charge for the operating system. That’s because Google makes its money on search. Apple can charge high prices because of the beauty and elegance of its devices, where the software and hardware are integrated in one gorgeous package. Meanwhile, Microsoft continued to force outside manufacturers, whose products simply weren’t as compelling as Apple’s, to pay for a license for Windows. And it didn’t allow Office to be used on non-Windows phones and tablets. “The whole philosophy of the company was Windows first,” says Heather Bellini, an analyst at Goldman Sachs. Of course it was: that’s how Microsoft had always made its money.

De-Windowsifying movement started in China [this same blog, Oct 28, 2014]

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“Holding our breath until we turn blue is not going to change the world” is how a former Microsoft executive sums up Nadella’s moves. “It’s not the world we wished it were, or the world we thought it was. It is an example of Satya embracing the world as it is.”

Embracing reality is also a huge change at Microsoft, where some joke about the “reality-distortion field.” As one explains it to me, life under Ballmer, and to some extent even Gates, was “‘Let’s get on I-90 and drive to Hawaii! We’ve got beer, we’ve got snacks, it’ll be great!’But then you say, ‘Oh, wait, you can’t get to Hawaii on I-90.’They say, ‘Yes, you can! It’ll be great! Let’s go!’” As this person says, “It can be really good but also really freakin’draining.”

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“I’m pretty excited about what’s going on in Office,” says Gates, who describes his new role at Microsoft as “way more intense” than his old role as board chairman. “The open-mindedness to some new things is there. And you can say I should have pushed harder for that in the years before—anyway, now Satya’s putting resources on that.”

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But as well respected and well liked as Nadella is—and as different as his style is from Ballmer’s or Gates’s—there are still questions about how radically different his Microsoft will be. Within the company, it has almost become a cliché that he was the “safe pick”: that he will stick with the status quo, whether in keeping the consumer businesses or in reshaping Microsoft’s executive ranks, which, as several people point out to me, are filled with employees who thrived under Ballmer. “He’s not Genghis Khan when you might need Genghis Khan,” says another former Microsoft executive about Nadella. There’s a Game of Thrones- like feeling inside Microsoft right now as people wait to see who will stay and who will go. But most of Ballmer’s senior executives still have their jobs.

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“The thing you’ve got to remember is I grew up in a Microsoft where Bill and Steve were there,” says Nadella. “If there’s anything that I know it’s how to get stuff done with Bill around.”

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SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it launched commercial tri-band LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) service for the first time in the world.

Tri-band LTE-A service offers data speeds of up to 300Mbps by aggregating three component carriers in three different frequency bands: 20MHz bandwidth in 1.8GHz band, 10MHz bandwidth in 800MHz band, and 10MHz bandwidth in 2.1GHz band.

The service is four times faster than LTE and 21 times faster than 3G service. For instance, at its peak speed, Tri-band LTE-A service allows users to download a 1GB movie in only 28 seconds.

About SK Telecom

<Attachment 1>: Evolution of SK Telecom’s Mobile Telecommunications Services

SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company published a white paper on 5G to suggest new direction for technological evolution to 5G, the next generation mobile communications network.

SK Telecom’s white paper on 5G is now available to the public at 5G Global Summit which is an international 5G conference held on October 20 and 21 during the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan.

Expecting the era of 5G to arrive in 2020, the white paper outlines analysis, direction and methodologies of 5G network explaining vision, core technologies, services, requirements and spectrum.

Based on its multi-dimensional analysis on 5G network from both user’s and operator’s perspectives, in particular, SK Telecom suggested User Experience, Connectivity, Intelligence, Efficiency and Reliability as 5 Great Values to pursue in the next generation telecommunications technology.

* Immersive multimedia service: deliver realistic multimedia content using a variety technologies including AR(Augmented Reality), VR(Virtual Reality) and hologram.

** Hyper-connected IoT service: connect all ___objects including diverse sensors, smart devices and cars based on large-volume wireless network to bring convenience and innovation to people’s daily lives.

SK Telecom as a chair company of 5G Forum, an industry-academia R&D partnership for 5G in Korea, expects the white paper becomes a basis for diverse future discussions on 5G development including standardization.

*** Millimeter wave mobile communications technology for 5G: a technology to use ultra-high frequency bands over 30GHz for telecommunications. The technology, combined with Massive MIMO, enables delivery of giga-bit level data rate.

SK Telecom’ white paper on 5G technology is now available for download on the company’s website.

■ Smart Wake-Up

With the support of Smart Wake-Up, decreased number of active base stations will reduce interference between cells and therefore speed up the data transmission between base stations and devices.

Applying the technology, SK Telecom expects to save operating costs of base stations and enhance durability of networking equipment by mitigating power waste of inactive base stations while improving energy-efficiency of networks.

In the recent tests of the technology, SK Telecom confirmed that use of Smart Wake-Up increased data throughput by 18% and reduced power consumption of the base station by 21% while still providing seamless service by reactivating the cell if detected access by a terminal.

Earlier on July 6, the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at Ericsson’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden for joint research on 5G technologies.

What It Is Isn’t What It Should Be [Seoul Digital Forum, May 21, 2014]

Original: http://www.sdf.or.kr/2014/en/frame.jsp? p=mainSessions_enView&td=1&i=10000000252

“This product just came fresh from our labs, so to show you that it’s working, we created a simple app,” Intel CEO Brian Kranich said at CES 2015. He demonstrated how the button-sized Intel Curie Module was measuring his steps and sending that data to an app on his smartphone.

This is representing a much more advanced state than that of leading core network technology vendors Ericsson and Qualcomm under their so called 5G efforts. See the 5G 2015⇒2019 analytical page of Dec 30, 2014 for details on the latter, as well as the companion posts to this one:

December 5, 2014: New Intel® Quark™ SoCs to enhance the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT (“Moon Island”) portfolio in a year from now article on this same blog to show the chip roadmap for both the IoT and the wearables

December 10, 2014: Wind River: Intel’s core technology provider for IoT article on this same blog to present the newly introduced Intel IoT Platform

The “bleeding edge effort in … for already marketable wearables by Intel” mentioned in the title of this post has successfully been carried out for the following 2014 products:

Explanations of the terms used in the title of this post from this same blog:

Explanations of the terms used in the title of the post from Wikipedia:

(1) Hardware components:

Choice of IoT Development board:

Intel® Galileo Gen 1

Intel® Galileo Gen 2

Intel® Edison

(2) Software Image:

For Intel Galileo: Yocto 1.6 based embedded Linux* boot image that includes helpful Linux tools (GCC tool chain, perf, oProfile, etc.), required drivers (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.), useful API libraries, and daemons like LighttPD and Node.js.

For Intel Edison: The dev kit libraries are already included in the OS distributed with the Edison development board. Make sure you: (1) follow the latest Edison getting started guide (2) periodically check for any new package updates

(3) IDE/ Programming language choice: Once you have chosen the hardware components and the software image to use, download the IDE you want based on your programming language preference.

C/C++ – Eclipse* IDE – C/C++ application development toolkit includes:

Eclipse IDE for Windows*, Mac* or Linux*

All the essential tools you need (cross-compiling tool chain, debugging and profiling tools)

Libraries to connect and access the Galileo or Edison boards + Sensor libraries

Useful templates/ samples to help you start building IoT applications quickly

JavaScript / Intel® XDK IoT Edition. You can build complete IoT solutions using Node.js on-board apps and companion apps (html5). Please note that Intel XDK – IoT Edition will be available for download on Sept 30, 2014.

Arduino IDE. Develop IoT solutions using the Arduino Sketches. Make sure to download and install the latest Arduino software and board support package

(5) Additional tools and solutions for optimization and performance

USA (Sept 20-21, Oct 4-5 w/100+, Oct 25-26 w/130+ & 22 projects)

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Intel Make it Wearable Challenge – $500,000 Prize for One Lucky Winner:

We are still looking forward for wearables in healthcare solutions of the similarly advanced types as the above ones.

This is representing a much more advanced state than that of leading core network technology vendors Ericsson and Qualcomm under their so called 5G efforts. See the 5G 2015⇒2019 analytical page of Dec 30, 2014 for details on the latter, as well as the companion posts to this one:

December 5, 2014: New Intel® Quark™ SoCs to enhance the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT (“Moon Island”) portfolio in a year from now article on this same blog to show the chip roadmap for both the IoT and the wearables

Watch Intel Services Chief Strategist and Mashery founder, Oren Michels, introduce the next wave of our API Management platform.

Now about the current state of Wind River offerings for Intel and other companies (mostly in the ARM space) in the IoT (M2M) industry

Technology Profiles

Finally more information on operating system offerings for all this:

“Liffy Island” for H2’15 and “Seal Beach” for 2016 (source: Myce.com, Nov 19, 2014):

With Quark range of products now completed Intel provided the following design-in recommendations (retyped from an Intel slide with related Intel video inserts by myself):

More Details

Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 – 2014 [Clanton: Q4’13-Q2’14] – Fast Time to Market

Ready for market and shipping for headless applications

Good for Moon Island Gateways and bolt on!

Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 – 2015 1H

Design for BOM sensitive telematics applications

Moon Island SW based Devices design-in—ReUse SW acceleration w validated software stack for non gateways

Liffy Island – 2015 2H

A fantastic IoT Gateway solution!

Good for typical long lead design-in of Deeply embedded applications

Potential IVI companion ship to Broxton solution for Transportation Solution Division

Great for Indu[stry] w GbE capabilities and hardware switch

Seal Beach – 2016

A fantastic IoT Gateway solution!

SSE2 instructions for additional performance, features, and OS support

Adding Graphics capabilities for general market with right low-cost interfaces to connect to panels and touch screens

Calendar 5.0-1554015 | via Android Police

Gmail 5.0 (1556543) | via Android Police

Maps 9.0.0 (Android 4.3+) | via Android Police

… I look forward to seeing your beautiful material design apps on screens everywhere. END

Steve Ballmer on leaving Microsoft, relationship with Bill Gates: “We’ve dusted-up many times”, on His Biggest Regret: “doing hardware earlier [for being] more effective in phone business” AND on Amazon: “They Make No Money.” [this same blog, Oct 25, 2014]

De-Windowsifying movement started in China [this same blog, Oct 28, 2014]

Hyper-connected IoT service**: connect all ___objects including diverse sensors, smart devices and cars based on large-volume wireless network to bring convenience and innovation to people’s daily lives.

This is representing a much more advanced state than that of leading core network technology vendors Ericsson and Qualcomm under their so called 5G efforts. See the 5G ^2015⇒2019 analytical page of Dec 30, 2014 for details on the latter, as well as the companion posts to this one:

**C/C++ – Eclipse* IDE** – C/C++ application development toolkit includes:

Eclipse IDE for Windows, Mac or Linux*

—– About SMS Audio, LLC —–
A premier audio headphone and accessories brand, SMS Audio, LLC is dedicated to improving the way people experience music. SMS Audio combines technology, function and style to deliver studio mastered sound wherever you go.

This is representing a much more advanced state than that of leading core network technology vendors Ericsson and Qualcomm under their so called 5G efforts. See the 5G ^2015⇒2019 analytical page of Dec 30, 2014 for details on the latter, as well as the companion posts to this one: