Noria Nakajima - Photo courtesy of EE Times - Source “IoT isn’t a market. It’s a phenomenon.” - Norio Nakajima, EE Times, August 8, 2016 Junko Yoshida, Chief International Correspondent for EE Times, published an excellent interview of Norio Nakajima, executive vice president of Kyoto-based Murata Manufacturing Co. responsible for the communication and [...]
Hexiwear is a development platform for IoT and wearable devices. It is designed to help hardware creators and entrepreneurs with rapid prototyping so that they can efficiently produce innovative IoT products that keep us connected and transform the ways in which we live. In the rapidly developing world of IoT and connected devices, the market demands faster [...]
We reached out to a Creator and Expert on the HWTrek platform to learn more about how they are using or creating for Autodesk Fusion 360. Autodesk Fusion 360 is a cloud-based CAD/CAM tool for collaborative product development. Fusion 360 combines very fast and easy organic modeling with precise solid modeling, allowing you to make [...]
Tencent launched, in April 2014, Tencent Operating System, an Android-based open hardware operating system for smart, connected devices. Three months later, Tencent's WeChat undertook work on an IoT open hardware platform in July 2014. As of a year ago, more than 2,400 hardware manufacturers, including both startups and established companies, had signed up for the [...]
In the evolution of wearable device chipsets, there are generally three types: Mobile chipsets: early on existing mobile chipsets were used to develop products. For example, Samsung Galaxy Gear used Exynos 4212, Google Glass used OPAP 4430. The advantage is an effective use of an existing platform with rich features. Microcontroller (MCU) based products: such [...]
The main feature of the IC Industry is that winners can take all the benefits and credit. For instance, an industry giant like Intel profits may rise up to 60% at its peak. Yet, what is the actual cost of those CPUs, accordingly, over hundreds or even thousands of units? The Hardware Cost Structure of [...]
Microsoft acquires LinkedIn Besides the implications for CRM and a single identity for workers best covered by Ben Thompson and James Allworth (see links below); there are also important ways in which this acquisition will also be valuable for ERP (enterprise resource planning) in Microsoft Dynamics, and inter-/intra-corporate collaboration, whether via Yammer or other applications. This [...]
Intel® Edison is a development platform for IoT and wearable devices. It is designed to help hardware creators and entrepreneurs with rapid prototyping so that they can efficiently produce innovative IoT products that keep us connected and transform the ways in which we live. What do you get? The package includes an Intel® Edison Complete [...]
Last year, HWTrek sponsored 30 hardware startups and creators to visit Taiwan and Beijing on the Asia Innovation Tour 2014. We’re doing it again this August. We reached out to Steven Stoddard (Director of Operations and Co-founder of CoolChip Technologies), a participant in the tour last year, to see what he’s been up to during the [...]
The MediaTek LinkIt™ Assist 2502 development platform is the world’s smallest commercial System-on-Chip (SoC) for wearables and is based on the the MediaTek MT2502 (Aster) SoC. The platform is used to design and prototype IoT and wearable devices. The platform enables hardware creators the ability to rapidly develop innovative products that change the way we [...]