The road to ES Design West: Location, location, location
There's still plenty of time to build a busy and profitable agenda for a visit to ES Design West and SEMICON West in San Francisco next week.
wearables
COMPUTEX 2015: Qualcomm edges Intel out of UK smartwatch start-up
Blocks' promo video says its work was 'Funded by Intel' but Qualcomm has announced that the modular watch company will be using its Snapdragon 400.
Unicef launches device contest for developing world
ARM and Unicef have teamed up to try to find new sources of designs for the developing world, and to stimulate innovation there.
DAC 52 keynotes focus on body-worn electronics and vehicle design
The 2015 Design Automation Conference in San Francisco will feature keynotes that focus on body-worn electronics such as Google’s Smart Contact Lens and automotive issues.
Douglas Adams 1: Apple Watch 0 (game in progress)
'Bling' for fashionistas and the B Ark lot. Apple Watch limps as the S1 SIP fails to offer convincing battery life. Silicon shortfall still dogs wearables.
Intel pins its IoT hopes on standards and data-center analytics
Intel aims to use a dual-pronged strategy that takes advantage of internet of things applications to push the x86 back into embedded-systems designs.
Foxconn’s wishlist for wearables and the Internet of Things
Manufacturing giant says we need a new category of WPUs - wearables processing units - to create a mass market and that ARM needs to go smaller than the MO.
CEVA acquires RivieraWaves for low-power Bluetooth and WiFi IP
With an eye on the markets for wearables and the internet of things (IoT), digital signal processing specialist IP company CEVA has bought RivieraWaves, a France-based supplier of WiFi and Bluetooth cores, in a deal worth an expected $19m.
MIPS-based board for Google wearables launched by Chinese chip company
Newton, a MIPS based board from Ingenic, is optimized for Android Gear smartwatches, wearables and IoT designs.