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Intel has discontinued its Edison, Galileo, and Joule product lines. The hardware was intended to be adopted in the IoT, wearable, embedded computing and single-board computer markets:
Intel has discontinued three of its offerings for the Internet of Things and embedded device markets.
The chipmaker said in a series of low-key product updates that it would be killing off the Edison [PDF], Galileo [PDF] and Joule [PDF] compute modules and boards over the second half of the year.
The notices mark an ignoble end for three lines that were once seen as key to Chipzilla's IoT and connected appliance strategies.
First unveiled at the 2014 CES show as a "PC on a card," Edison's aim was to put x86 chips into both the wearables and "maker" markets with kits and hobbyist boards (like the Arduino).
Additional coverage on hackaday.io with one interesting note:
It's important to remember that this does not mark the end of the semiconductor giant's forray into the world of IoT development boards, there is no announcement of the demise of their Curie chip, as found in the Arduino 101. But it does mark an ignominious end to their efforts over the past few years in bringing the full power of their x86 platforms to this particular market, the Curie is an extremely limited device in comparison to those being discontinued.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @11:22PM (3 children)
Thus, when x86 finally starts to lose its hegemony, it will make sense for Intel to jump to the RISC-V [riscv.org] architecture.
With Intel's clout, RISC-V will easily push ARM out of the market and leave AMD holding the x86 bag.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 21 2017, @04:20AM (1 child)
So what are they waiting on?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @04:39AM
The phrase you are attempting to use is "What are they waiting for?"; I'll leave it as a homework assignment to think about the difference between "waiting for" and "waiting on".
As already stated, Intel must wait for x86 to start losing its hegemony, because only then will it be necessary to rely on superior fabs for profit; there is still a long way to go.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 22 2017, @01:49PM
Intel could lose their process advantage. 14nm has been stretched out for a long time. 10nm is coming [kitguru.net], and while Intel's 10nm may be more advanced [hothardware.com] in transistors/area than Samsung and others, that advantage could disappear as 7nm and below start using completely different technologies like EUV lithography, gate-all-around transistors (instead of FinFETs), new materials, whatever.
Intel is already working on using its fabs to build ARM chips [theverge.com]. RISC-V? lolno
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