Showing posts with label Intel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intel. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Sad news- Intel drops Edison, Galileo, Joule, Curie

I had previously posted about some of Intel's efforts to get involved in the IoT and Maker communities with their own products such as the Edison, Galileo, Curie, and more.

At the recent DefCon conference I was chatting with the guy behind HackerBoxes and was sad to learn that Intel has recently dropped some of their efforts.  I took a look and found info that they are dropping production of the Edison, Galileo, Curie, and Joule products by the end of 2017 or mid 2018.

This is a bit disappointing.  I thought some of these had a lot of potential, and I think that if they haven't been as successful as they could have been that maybe Intel didn't do all they could to make these products successful.  I know Sparkfun had put out several items in support of the Edison.  I had hoped to see more published information on these items and there was a planned work on the Edison and Galileo that never came out.

As far as I can tell they are still supporting the Euclid product, but that's just not the same.

Does this end Intel's foray into this realm?  Hopefully not.

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Intel meets Arduino: Galileo, Edison, Curie

When I was getting into computers, we had a variety of companies making different microprocessors.  There was Intel, Zilog, Sun, IBM, Motorola, MOS Technology, National Semiconductor, TI, Acorn, HP, and several others.

It seemed that in the home market, at that time made up of Apple, Atari, and Commodore (and a few others), most chips were derived from the Motorola 6800.  (the 6502 was a derivative of the 6800).  So these were called the "6ers".  Their next generation systems were all based on the Motorola 68000 processor and successors.

In the business market, most were first based on the Zilog Z80 (the CP/M machines), later supplanted by the Intel 8088 and follow-on chips.  So these were called the "8ers".

Within the Unix workstation world, most started with the more powerful Motorola 68000 before going with a variety of RISC-based processors (Sun SPARC, HP PA-RISC, IBM PowerRISC, etc).

Eventually things shook out, and Intel and Intel-based processors came to dominate pretty much all of the desktop and laptop market and most of the server market (for Windows Servers and Linux Servers).  Intel has won out.  (please note this is a very simplified version of history)

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Resources for the Internet of Things Security

At the HackMiami Conference  on May 16, 2015, I did a presentation on an Introduction to Internet of Things Security.  The presentation is now up on YouTube.  I have the link below.

As a tie-in to the presentation, I am providing here links to the various resources that I covered in the presentation, along with others I didn't have the time to.  If you come across other items of interest, please add them to the comments.