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Follow on Google News | Intel is Not Moving Smart Enough in the Smart Devices/IoT Market Says The Information NetworkMCUs provide local processing capability for the “real-time” The MCU is part of a sensor network that is capable of performing some processing, gathering sensory information and communicating with other connected nodes in the network along with a transceiver and one or more sensors. These semiconductor devices are also analyzed in the report in terms of revenue and shipments for the period 2014 to 2020. In 2014, Smart Cities will represent the largest application share of MCUs at 54%. As other applications gain traction, Smart Cities’ share will drop to 48% of MCU consumption in 2020 while Smart Home MCU consumption will increase the greatest at a compounded annual growth rate of 35%. MCUs incorporated with a sensor and a wireless connectivity chip into the design of a dumb gadget turns them into smart products. For example, a toaster is just a dumb device that can only tell you if it's on or off. According to Kaivan Karimi, VP and GM of Atmel Corporation’ Our analysis shows that MCUs being designed into Smart Technology by most manufacturers, although most are primarily ARM based. Leading ARM licensees are Atmel, Freescale, NXP, STMicroelectronics, TI, and Toshiba. Freescale has cut back on its ColdFire in favor of ARM. Keep in mind that a microprocessor (MPU) can be used in Smart Technology and are, in fact, used instead of MCUs in compute-intensive applications. It is estimated that 15% of all Smart Devices use an MPU. So where is Intel in all this? Intel has dabbled in wearables (which is included in the Convergence of Semiconductors and Smart Technology – A Market Analysis report) Intel’s Quark, announced in 2013, is an embedded system-on-a- Is Intel’s product too little, too late to compete in the lucrative MCU/MPU market for Smart Technology? According to our Smart Technology report, the Smart Health sector represents only a 3.4% share of MCU consumption in 2014, growing to 4.8% in 2020. In other words, Health represents only $70 million in MCU revenues and wearables are only a subset of Health. In our report Wearables - Electronics and Semiconductor Markets, we analyze the wearable market for CPUs (MCU/MPU) for Smart Clothing and Sports/Activity Monitors. For Smart Clothing, the size of the CPU market was only $3 million in 2014. "The sweet spot for MCUs is in the Smart City and Smart Industry sectors," noted Kristian Castellano, an analyst with The Information Network. "Intel needs to enter these markets in order go establish a viable position in Smart Technology and the IoT." The Information Network is a leading consulting and market research company addressing the semiconductor, LCD, HDD, and solar industries. Web - www.theinformationnet.com E-mail - inquiry@theinformationnet.com CONTACT: Kristian Castellano, 610/737-7596 End
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