Acquisitions possible, seeking Japanese partners 

The market is definitely changing. MediaTek made a lot of money on its smartphone SoC sales, but the company is looking beyond that. They now have clear IoT and Automotive market aspirations.

Playdrop monitors your water usage with IoT 

Playdrop is set to become the Dropbox of the water supply monitoring business.

Monitor and see everything in the cloud

During the last few quarters, we heard repeatedly how everything has to be connected and that the Internet of Things (IoT) might become a $36 billon market by 2020. Home automation has to be a big part of that cake.

Inexpensive solution for Makers robots

Everything is about Robots these days and Intel, MediaTek and many platform manufacturers are trying to find a way into the market.

But Intel is still saying nothing

At IDF 2015, HP, Dell, Lenovo and others are showing us what is the latest and greatest in tablets, notebooks and "two in ones", but Intel seems to be keeping itself on the sidelines.

IDF  2015: 3Dxpoint memory will be DIMM

Intel's Queen of Big Data has just announced that the first 3D Xpoint based memory will be in the DIMM modules.

IDF 2015:  It is all about the Internet of Things 

Intel CEO Bryan Krzanich told the Developer Forum 2015 a lot about the Internet of Things, RealSense phone, the Razer RealSense camera but didn’t mention Skylake or 10nm.

IDF 2015: Intel develops PC that wakes up when you talk to it

Intel has just developed wake up on voice technology and showed it off at the Intel Developer Forum.

A lot of controversial messaging

There is no doubt that Skylake is rather impressive architecture with a huge focus on mobile. At the same time, the Skylake Core i7 6700K desktop part seems to be the most disconnected product launch Intel did in the last few years.

Suppliers need to sell less to make money

Nvidia had good quarter thanks to selling plenty of desktop-based Geforce cards, but the overall market has dropped 11 percent from the last quarter.