Amazon FreeRTOS adds a new ‘Bluetooth low energy support’ feature
Amazon team announced a newly added ‘bluetooth low energy support’ (BLE) feature to its Amazon FreeRTOS. Amazon FreeRTOS is an open source, free to...
Hybrid nanomembranes make conformal wearable sensors possible, demo South Korean researchers with imperceptible loudspeakers...
A team of researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has developed an ultrathin, and transparent wearable device...
German IoT startup relayr acquired by Munich Re for $300 million
Relayr, an IoT middleware startup based in Berlin, has been purchased by German insurance group Munich Re. The deal, which values relayr at $300...
NSA researchers present security improvements for Zephyr and Fucshia at Linux Security Summit 2018
Last week, James Carter and Stephen Smalley presented the architecture and security mechanisms of two operating systems, Zephyr and Fuchsia at the Linux Security...
Facebook and Arm join Yocto Project as platinum members for embedded Linux development
Last week, the Yocto Project announced that Arm and Facebook will be joining the project as new platinum members. The Yocto Project is an...
Arm unveils its Client CPU roadmap designed for always-on, always-connected devices
Arm, the world’s leading semiconductor IP company, for the first time have disclosed its forward-looking compute performance data and a CPU roadmap for their...
Intel acquires eASIC, a custom chip (FPGA) maker for IoT, cloud and 5G environments
Last week Intel acquired eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company that makes customizable eASIC chips for use in wireless and cloud environments. The actual transaction...
AMD’s $293 million JV with Chinese chipmaker Hygon starts production of x86 CPUs
Chinese chip producer Hygon begins production of China-made x86 processors named “Dhyana”. These processors use AMD’s Zen microarchitecture and are the result of the...
Infosys and Siemens collaborate to build IoT solutions on MindSphere
Infosys recently announced its partnership with Siemens to build applications for Siemens' open cloud-based IoT operating system, Mindsphere.
Mindsphere connects real-world objects (industrial machinery, systems,...
Google becomes new platinum member of the Linux foundation
Google is the new platinum member of the Linux Foundation. Google will benefit the platinum member rights and the Linux community will move towards...
