Intel's new chip targets industrial IoT Intel has made a big play for the expanding internet-of-things market with an updated Atom processor that offers double the computing and three times the graphics performance. The E3900 family of three chips is an update to the E3800 from 2013 and, according to the VP of Intel's Internet of Things Group, Ken Caviasca, has been …
"Industrial IoT" Is that even a category!
it's actually the highest growth IoT category.
It's about automating factories with an intranet of wireless sensors instead of miles of cables. It also shows tremendous value when the factory needs to be reconfigured for another product in that you do not need to route cables everywhere. You also get predictive maintenance and fault prediction. The market presently is in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
BTW by intranet I mean by design it's almost always a private closed-off network with no outside internet access.
ARM based IOT board like the Raspberry Pi - £30
And at least a couple of orders too expensive for the lowest cost embedded devices - musical cards and the like.
Cheapest board with an Atom on board - well over £100.
And completely insignificant on a £100,000 piece of plant.
The embedded and IoT market is far more diverse than you could possibly imagine. Some need performance levels that run rings around even well specified workstations. Assuming the Pi is a magical one size fits all solution simply demonstrates your ignorance.
Realistically, we should expect these to show up in actual industrial applications aside from the odd greenfield in, what, 15 or 20 years? They'll be in Modbus RTU gateways with really fancy looking configuration interfaces (VR? Hell, why not) that the integrators muck about with once in the product's life.
Because no one anywhere has wanted to create e.g. an advertising billboard or public information display. I don't know why people have so much tunnel vision about IoT and embedded. It is as if the entire sector is washing machine controllers and nothing else.
Why?
Yes there may be a more open playing field but don't most of these things have even more stringent power requirements than mobile?
So it's more powerful than an 8051 (but aren't most processors) and it's Intel compatible (but so what. These systems don't run Windows).
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