
IoT industry leaders announce open source standard group
Aims to accelerate Internet of Things to a single open standard
On Friday, a group of industry leaders making headway in the Internet of Things (IoT) market announced a cross-industry collaboration effort aimed at unlocking the massive opportunities for consumers and business with IoT devices, and ultimately a way to quickly get everyone to adopting a single open standard.

Intel to highlight “path to 5G LTE” at MWC 2016
New software technique gives IoT devices an extra 20dB signal range
This week on stage at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, Spain, chip giant Intel will focus its efforts on announcing new developments in the realm of fifth-generation (5G) LTE networks. The focus comes just days after the company showed the results of a low-power wide area (LPWA) field test for IoT devices in collaboration with Orange S.A (formerly France Télécom S.A) and Ericsson.

Intel confirms 10nm on track for 2017
Despite rumours of delay
Chipzilla has said that a job advert which implied that it would not be using the 10nm process for two years was inaccurate and confirmed that it is on track for a 2017 release.

Intel SSD to hit 10 TB of storage.
Thanks to Micron 3D NAND
Chipzilla is offering a 10TB SSD, thanks to Micron's 3D NAND flash.

Khronos Group releases Vulkan 1.0 API
Full hard launch
The Khronos Group has now officially released the Vulkan 1.0 API, including all the specifications, conformance tests, SDKs and all other resources.

Intel goes Gaga at Grammys
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la! Want your bad romance
Intel has teamed up with the woman who bought the world a steak dress, perhaps hoping to create steak and chips.

Intel's unreleased 18-core Xeon CPU on eBay
Will cost you $999
An auction for Intel's new Broadwell-EP ES 18-core Xeon CPU hits eBay for $999 even if it had not been officially released.

Intel Braswell Refresh
Seven new SoCs
Intel has refreshed its new Braswell lineup with seven more SoCs

Intel not ahead of the foundries
Transistor performance lagging
The naming game for the next generation of chipmaking actually covers up the fact that Intel is probably not ahead of the foundries in terms of transistor performance.

OEMs appear to kill AMD’s Carrizo
Shackled, overpriced by OEM ball and chain
AMD’s hopes that its Carrizo might boost performance are being stuffed up by its OEM partners crippling the chip and over-pricing products made with it.