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.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017
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)
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)
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