Giant enclosure wearable market Intel wants to borrow "curve to save the nation"

Yesterday (April 9), The daily economic news reporter learned that inedasystems for smart watches and other wearable devices to design low-power chips for the start-up company to obtain a total of 17 million U.S. dollars in the B-round financing, investors include Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics. It is understood that, to date, wearable equipment in this field, has attracted the Apple, Google, Samsung, Intel and other big guys eyes, all kinds of "enclosure movement" let this is still in the melee market competition is extremely fierce.

It is noteworthy that the mobile transformation of Intel also hope that wearable technology to "curve the National salvation." In the early hours of April 9, according to Reuters, Intel closed its Costa Rica plant and laid off 1500 people, trying to expand its business and move from the PC market to the mobile market. Previously, Intel and Samsung collaborated on the Tizen system, which was intended to drive the pace of movement through wearable markets, but as Google could wear Androidwear releases, the Tizen system fell.

Giant Spotlight Wearable

Now, wearable equipment concept hot, has attracted a lot of big boss in advance layout.

In addition to the above investment, Ineda also announced a "Wearable Processing Unit" (WPU), which lasted 1 months. Sanjay Sanjay, chairman of Ineda, said it would use the round to develop ultra-low power chips that could be used continuously for 1 months without recharging. Currently available wearable equipment, battery life is usually only a few hours to a few days.

The various smart watches that have been published in the past year have been widely criticized for their lack of power, and this research is undoubtedly an important part of any device manufacturer's reputation in the future. It is reported that Ineda's wearable processor unit is scheduled to be shipped in the second half of this year.

It is noteworthy that from upstream components to downstream terminal products, no one is the wearable field as the highlight of this year. Among them, Samsung electronic action is the fastest, has launched two Tizen operating system of smart watch. In addition, the three quarter of this year, the iwatch will also be listed. Google, which has been sitting still, has officially sounded the clarion call to the battle, releasing the Androidwear platform, LG, Asus, HTC, Motorola Mobile will become Androidwear hardware partners. Baidu, Shanda, ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo, Millet and other enterprises, have also launched a wearable hardware research and development and listing plans.

In the chip field, Qualcomm has been developing its own wearable equipment parts and even launched its own Toq smart watch. At the same time, Qualcomm also supported Google's recently released Androidwear smart watch platform, but the use of the chip is originally designed for smart phone 骁丽 Dragon processor. American semiconductor manufacturer Bo Tong is also one of the Androidwear platform Chip Partners.

In the wearable field of a fiery situation, Google's Androidwear project to standard operating system platform to standardize the market, but also indirectly blocked the newly emerging Tizen operating system in Samsung can wear the future.

In an interview with the Daily economic news reporter, it commentator Sun Yongjie that with the launch of the Androidwear platform, Samsung will refocus more wearable devices back into Android, Tizen the system or declare death. But Tizen is hiding behind another giant intel, which Intel wants to work with Samsung to preempt the mobile chip market, has not been successful with other mobile chip makers.

Intel transition Embarrassment

The Tizen operating system, which works with Samsung, can be said to be a "mobile dream" for Intel. In the Mobile world, Intel is still in the process of transformation. Despite the two years that Intel has been innovating to boost the energy consumption of its chips, it has also courted Motorola, Lenovo, ZTE and others to use their own chips in their handsets, but it has not worked well from its market share, which accounted for less than 1% of the smartphone market last year.

In Tuesday, Intel spokesman Chack Mulloy Mulloy said the company would close its assembly and testing plant in Costa Rica and cut 1500 employees. Shutting down the plant is part of a plan that Intel announced earlier. Intel is facing a slump in the PC market, which is taking steps to cut spending to try to expand its business and move from the PC market to the mobile market.

There is no doubt that Intel dominates the PC chip industry, but has been slow to act in the smartphone and tablet chip sectors. At the moment, Qualcomm and Samsung dominate the market, and the first two have just invested in a mobile chip maker, plus the Tizen or possibly "demise", which is not good news for Intel.

However, Intel is also looking for a new breakout path. According to foreign media reports, Intel has successfully bid for wearable equipment manufacturer Basisscience, the acquisition price between 100 million ~1.5 billion dollars. Basisscience has been seeking to sell, and giants such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft have been interested in the company, but eventually Basisscience selected Intel.

Intel hopes wearable technology can "curve the Nation", the two years in a row for wearable devices for the Subminiature processor Quark and Edison Smart chip, hoping to get a slice of the market. But Intel's current products lag behind some other vendors, and the acquisition of basis is expected to help more.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)