Intel Buys Yogitech, Aims To Improve Safety of Autonomous Cars and IoT Systems (pcworld.com) 17
An anonymous reader writes: Intel has acquired the Italian company Yogitech to improve upon Internet of Things (IoT) security and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Yogitech's flagship technology known as faultRobust is designed to keep circuits functional and prevent device failure. Since Intel provides chips for IoT devices, it makes sense for the company to be interested expanding that effort with Yogitech's technology. Intel's Atom and Quark chips are used in IoT devices, and it bundles hardware- and software- based security and networking layers in with those chips. The most obvious use for Yogitech's technology is with autonomous vehicles, where the circuitry can be used to reduce errors related to braking and identification of objects. It may also be used in industrial machines, where the chances of equipment hurting the process or a worker could be reduced.
According to Intel, 30 percent of the IoT market will require functional safety systems. Intel didn't comment how much they paid to buy the company.
Chips will be used to lock in dealer only service (Score:2)
Chips will be used to lock in dealer only service and that also means tires, oil changes, battery changes, light bulbs. But at least un like the apple car you can use your own wiper fluid.
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Not if we use the DMCA to lock people out.
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Yeah no. That's illegal.
Try owning a BMW. (Actually, don't. ACs are my friends.)
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magnussen/moss act says you are wrong.
5 days late (Score:3)
They want to use Italians to make a car drive more safely?
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But then India where is no lane discipline
Intel has deep pockets (Score:2)
Intel has deep pockets so when the hardware messes up they have the funds to pay out.
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not used in IoT devices (Score:2)
Intel's chips are simply too expensive to use in anything that isn't running Windows. This is already failed venture, just like their smartphone efforts.
In 10 Years (Score:2)
In 10 years, Intel will be what IBM is today.
CPUs have stagnated and Intel is reaching deeper and deeper into the high cost, no value segments of "integration" and "business solutions".
No one uses IME, McAfee, or the other half-baked, baked-in features of their business CPUs.
Regular servers run on Xeons but could easily switch to Opterons (or whatever AMD calls them now) and win on performance/$. They'd lose on performance per Watt, but that gap will shrink faster than Intel's fabrication processes.
HPC ser
Safety of Autonomous Cars and IoT Systems (Score:2)
IoT, security and autonomous cars in the same phrase. How could anyone resist?
And they'll do it by leveraging the advantages of big data, right?
Yoyodyne (Score:2)
I read that as, "Intel buys Yoyodyne".
Yea, this will work out... (Score:2)