Thiru Arunachalam, co-founder of Peel, said he has “ongoing interaction with the management team at Alibaba.” He said he was introduced to the Alibaba investors through venture capitalist Jay Eum of TransLink Capital. Two other TransLink portfolio companies also have Alibaba capital: Quixey and Tango.

The dialog between Alibaba and Peel management is centered on operational issues. For instance, the Alibaba association has helped Peel to acquire two companies in China. The deals give Peel access to talent in China and leverage in what is the startup’s fastest-growing market, he told Silicon Dragon attendees.

Note the following

NXP has a new product they want to be used for always on. The adjacent possible made this a very expected approach.

What did they do?

They  put an M0+ core in front of an M4.

And what did that give them?  20% lower power.  That is all.

The M0 power figures are not so much lower than the M4.  

No math unit in the M0, it will not run Kalmans like the S2 that will sit in front of the M4

Medicine has the Glasgow coma scale score for level of consciousness.  It has a numerical scale,
3 is the lowest number, 15 the highest.  It is clear that MCUs to get lnger life will drop
Down the the Glasgow coma scale score,
Say leave only a mic on, always, but the device wont know where you are or the context.
Even NXPs dual ARM 0/4 MCU will do that,
An equivalent Glasgow coma score of such a device
Equals 3-5.  QUIKs next FFE/M4 will allow
A competing device to have the maximum GCS
score of 15.


Best thing I heard on the cc?  The word Flagship for their first context aware
Device.  Will a Device with a coma score of 15 be differentiated from one of
3?  The difference is HUGE.

QUIK has the right bits and pieces tomake THE BEST SoC there will be.