$INTC,...Intel takes on ARM with end-to-end IoT platform
The Intel IoT Platform (NASDAQ:INTC), launched today, aims to provide a "reference model" for Web-connected embedded devices (the proverbial Internet of Things), along with related software and services.
The solution includes: 1) An updated version of the Intel IoT Gateway (launched last year), which provides Web connectivity and data sharing for embedded devices. The gateways will be offered by 20 ODMs by early 2015. 2) Management software from Intel's Wind River (embedded software) unit. 3) Security tools from McAfee. 4) An API and traffic management tools for developers (enabled by the Mashery acquisition).
Intel is also partnering with Dell, Accenture, SAP, Wipro, and others to create solutions that "provide a repeatable foundation" for the IoT Platform that developers can build customer-specific solutions on top of.
The chip giant's main goal, of course, is to drive CPU sales - partly for gateways, but primarily for the devices they interact with. Intel offers Atom CPUs for more powerful embedded devices, and Quark CPUs for smaller, low-power products.
The Intel IoT Platform will face off against ARM's (NASDAQ:ARMH) mbed IoT platform (launched in October). ARM, whose CPU cores claim a large and growing share of the microcontroller market, has provided mbed with an OS, device server software, and developer tools. The solution is meant to run on ARM's low-power Cortex-M CPU cores.
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