The car of the future is already here, we just need to give it a legal framework and more sensors. This weeks podcast talks about connected gars, garages and HVAC systems.…
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Texas Instruments offers new Wi-Fi chips for the internet of things
Texas Instruments has created a family of chips that lets you connect your devices to the internet without much ado. The TI…
Read MoreThe internet of things is great for chipmakers and a challenge for Intel
Bringing everyday physical objects online is going to shake up the chip industry in a major way. There are new opportunities for startups and even Intel knows it has to change.…
Read MoreTexas Instruments creates its own internet of things ecosystem
Like many of its chipmaking competitors, Texas Instruments is really stoked about the promise of connected devices. It all boils down to…
Read MoreThe new generation of hardware startups needs a different kind of chip company
The electronics inside today's hottest connected devices are often custom and difficult to engineer because the big chip firms don't offer the information entrepreneurs need. How can the industry fix this?…
Read MoreEnergy harvesting chips: The next big thing for a connected world
Sensors are everywhere, but if we can build a generation of more efficient energy-harvesting chips, sensors could go in even more places. Here's how researchers are trying to make that happen.…
Read MoreDrink up! A connected water bottle tracks your H2O intake
We all should probably drink more water. I know that when I track my consumption, I’m barely getting 32 ounces, nowhere near…
Read MoreThingsquare launches kits that let connected devices mainline the internet
Thingsquare, the company behind the lightweight Contiki OS for the internet of things has released development kits that let people build products that go directly online, without going through a hub first.…
Read MoreZigBee wants to be the Bluetooth of the internet of things. Too bad everyone hates it.
ZigBee is fighting for its place in the internet of things against Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy and Z-wave. It has to overcome fragmentation, sneak into user's homes and keep Bluetooth at bay. Can it do all three?…
Read MoreBluetooth LE + Android and why the smart tag revolutions is upon us
Tags, tags, everywhere are tags. I can't go two days without a new sensor tag product launching. But what's behind this cornucopia of connected tags? Let me tell you.…
Read MoreVideo: Yes, that’s a DLP projector in my tablet; here’s how it looks
How much can an integrated projector enhance tablet usage? More than I expected as the Texas Instruments DLP chip in a 7-inch slate makes for a big screen experience when it comes to viewing videos, pictures or the web.…
Read MoreNew TI chips speed charge times and extend battery life for smartphones, tablets
New Texas Instruments chipsets won't help your device run longer on a single charge, but they will allow for 30 percent faster recharging. And the Li-Ion battery in your mobile device will last longer over the device lifetime.…
Read MoreMystery for the day: Who’s buying ST-Ericsson’s geolocation business?
As part of STMicroelectronics and Ericsson's break-up, the companies say they've found a buyer for their GPS and GLONASS receiver business. It's a "leading semiconductor company" - but that's all we know.…
Read MoreCan chip companies profit off the maker movement? TI is betting on it
Chipmakers are eying the maker community as a possible development community for the internet of things. Texas Instruments has two new offerings for this crowd.…
Read MoreMetaio predicts augmented reality chips in devices by end of 2013
Despite the shuttering of its only announced customer, ST-Ericsson, the German AR firm Metaio says it expects its dedicated processors to be in mobile devices by the end of the year.…
Read MoreChip sales are down, but Qualcomm is up. Waaaay up!
Sales of semiconductors are expected to fall this year. The only sector that didn't see a decline year-over-year is the wireless business, and in that sector Qualcomm has seen sales grow by 27.2 percent. More proof of the upheaval occurring in the chip biz.…
Read MoreGuess who else wants to build ARM-based servers? Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments will join the slew of chipmakers using cell-phone cores in servers. But it has two twists with its KeyStone architecture -- integrated 10 gigabit Ethernet networking and TI's digital signal processing cores to aid in performing complex math.…
Read MoreWhy Amazon might buy TI’s mobile chip business
Reports of Amazon considering the purchase of Texas Instruments' mobile chip business for billions of dollars may not make sense at first glance. But there are several reasons why such a deal could make sense for Amazon in both devices and cloud computing activities.…
Read MoreIntel steps it up on mobiles, gets Jelly Bean on its chips
After watching the mobile market pass it by, Intel is aggressively moving forward. Its newest chips for smartphones and tablets run longer on a single charge and the company now has the latest version of Google Android, known as Jelly Bean, running on those chips.…
Read MoreAMD, ARM, others team up to take on Intel everywhere
AMD, ARM, Texas Instruments and two smaller chip firms have teamed up to create a nonprofit that will try to unseat Intel's x86 dominance in computing. But this group isn't just after Intel; it's taking the CPU -- the beating heart of computers today -- down a peg.…
Read MoreMetaWatch smartwatch now smarter: supports iOS and Bluetooth 4
MetaWatch announced two key improvements for its smartwatch development platform in an effort to better compete with up-and-comer products. The MetaWatch now has support to get wireless data from iOS devices and also aims for better battery life with the addition of a Bluetooth 4.0 radio.…
Read MoreSamsung holds 2011 dual-core chip crown; can it repeat?
Only 20 percent of smartphones sold last year had dual-core chips, but among those, Samsung sold the lion's share: 60 percent of all dual core smartphones sold in 2011 had a Samsung processor. Who's poised best to challenge in 2012? Only one company for now.…
Read MoreMobile chip wars rage on as Samsung debuts its quad-core
Samsung introduced its next generation mobile chip, the Exynos 4 Quad, on Thursday, with claims of twice the processing power with a 20 percent reduction in power use. The company will use the new processor in its next Galaxy phone, debuting in a few weeks.…
Read MoreReport: Google Nexus Tablet “a done deal”
The $249 Asus MeMo Android tablet shown off at January's Consumer Electronics Show is expected to be the first Google Nexus tablet with a price target of $149 to $199. To lower the price, Asus may be dropping Nvidia's Tegra 3 for a dual-core chip.…
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