COMPUTEX 2015 to Premiere Wearable Technology

Published on December 26, 2014 at 6:03 AM

COMPUTEX TAIPEI, the acclaimed annual trade show of the international ICT industry, is scheduled for June 2^nd to 6^th, 2015, and exhibitor spaces are selling faster than expected. COMPUTEX is expected to fill the Nangang and Xinyi exhibition halls to maximum capacity with over 5000 booths.

COMPUTEX will premiere the “Wearable Technology” area in 2015. (Photo: Business Wire)

COMPUTEX organizers held 14 booth-allocation meetings over 5 days, beginning December 17^th. The meetings double as orientation for the exhibitors—with presentations on safety and construction regulations, advertisement and publicity options, and available sponsorship—and for exhibitors to determine their booth location. The meetings had a 90 percent attendance rate.
The main themes for COMPUTEX 2015 are “The Internet of Things”, “mobile applications”, and “Cloud technology and services”. Forums and other COMPUTEX events will be designed to guide the ICT industry as it navigates rapidly changing technology.
With the increasing demand for mobile devices and the Internet of Things driving the growth of big data and cloud services, the forecast for the ICT industry looks promising.
Wearable technology is also expected to be a hot trend in 2015. Apple finally offered the world a glimpse of its long-anticipated Apple Watch in September, expected to sell out upon its 2015 release. The Apple Watch is being produced by Taiwanese firm Quanta. Taiwanese manufacturers are behind many of the world’s most popular mobile devices and have the technological know-how to keep up with the latest tech trends. Taiwan’s Industrial Economics and Knowledge predicts that sales of wearable tech will grow by 104% in the next year, generating $6.8B USD in trade. Furthermore, Gartner expects that sales of wearables showcased this year at COMPUTEX will grow exponentially in the next year.
In response to industry trends, COMPUTEX will premiere the “Wearable Technology” area in 2015. The show organizer, TAITRA, have created this new section in order to offer a closer look at this growing trend. Another new area to expect in 2015 is “3D Business and Applications”.
Source: http://www.computextaipei.com.tw/

One good thing about this blog is that in the past I did not post certain things out of some sensitivity that QUIK might not want me doing so.  Not so many ( but the right sort) read my stuff now so I am freer.

Even at this holiday time QUIK can surprise you.

How so you ask?

ANOTHER NEW job posting.  And I love job postings.  They get filled and disappear and NOBODY knows what it said any more.

Even now I won't put the whole job listing up.  You can do that.  Print it up and put it away.  Here are a few snips

Principal Platform Architect

integration camps

new market segments

10 or more years of relevant experience in in system architecture including broad technical experience in both hardware and software development.


Nice.  QUIK is a SOFTWARE company now too.  That is crucial for the future. It is given not so much notice, but it changes everything in a good way.  Algo chefs are cooking up new algos right now.


Engage tier-1 customers for design wins, successful integration, qualification and deployment of QuickLogic’s platforms.


They are set on getting what you would want as a part owner of their business.

They added 100 man yrs of experience last yr and may do so again in '15.

Always keep something to look forward to and '15 will be a whole lot better than 14.

PS Merry Christmas to all readers and followers of QUIK and the adjacent possible. You can glimpse the adjacent possible in this short snip of text...

new market segments.

QUIK keep hanging out in those MEMS sensor coffee houses.
 While those invested in QUIK gravitate rightly to Samsung- my reading tells a slightly different story.. I don't wait for this Tier 1 to roll with a QUIK connectivity CSSP.  The adjacent possible is much bigger than that and that's good I do NOT focus so much on those guys as THE( only) key for QUIK,  it is bigger and exists beyond them already...

Nothing like nice new reading material to go through...

http://www.wareable.com/news

Wearable tech market to triple in 2015

Wrist-based devices still leading the charge according to new analyst report

Tuesday

December 9, 2014

By Paul Lamkin

@paullamkin

The wearable tech market is set to triple in size in 2015, according to a new report published by Forrester Research and presented at Le Web conference in Paris.

"The wearable market will take off as brands, retailers, sports stadiums, healthcare companies, and others develop new business models to take advantage of wearables," J.P. Gownder, the author of the report, said.

The IT analyst polled more than 20,000 people and businesses across Europe and the US earlier this year and found that Americans are more accepting of the latest revolution in tech, with 45% of respondents indicating that they would be willing to strap a connected device onto their wrist. 32% of Europeans said they were interested in a wrist-based wearable.

Wareable verdict: Comprehensive Fitbit Charge review

The report states that 10 million Apple Watch units will be sold in 2015 – much less than previous forecasts we’ve seen.

In November we heard that up to 30 million Apple Watch units could be shifted in 2015, according to Morgan Stanley, and last week UBS estimated that 24 million would hit people's wrists next year.

The Forrester report suggests that businesses will be a major driving force in the wearable tech boom with 68% of companies polled stating that developing a wearables strategy for their business is a priority.

While wrist-based devices, such as fitness trackers and smartwatches, led the way for respondent interest, clipped on wearable devices such as the Misfit Flash or the Jawbone UP Move weren’t far behind….

Will you be buying your first wearable in 2015? Let us know what you've got your eye on using the comments below...

or this one..

A third of wearable tech will be invisible to the eye by 2017

Gartner predicts 30% of wearables will be inconspicuous to the eye very soon

IoT security deserves a little reading time...

PROCESSORS

• servers,
• hardware

Intel's IoT vision sees far more than chips

Stephen Lawson@sdlawsonmedia

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Intel is bringing all its assets to bear on the Internet of Things, a hot topic for nearly all IT vendors but one that’s especially critical to big chip makers.

While Intel would like to see its low-power chips used in sensors, wearables and other hardware that will ship in huge numbers if the industry’s IoT dreams come true, it also has software, security and infrastructure to add to the mix. In the short run, those may matter more than the silicon itself.

At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company announced what it calls the Intel IoT Platform, a combination of hardware, software and partnerships designed to help its customers quickly churn out complete systems. Intel also introduced its latest IoT gateway design, plus security and management capabilities that will be part of that platform.

“It really is an end to end play,” said Doug Fisher, vice president and general manager of the Intel Software and Services Group.

A key part of Intel’s strategy for IoT is its gateway reference designs, which can collect data from sensors and other IoT devices at the edge of a network and process and translate that data. The gateways can even turn machines that have never been networked into connected devices, translating older proprietary protocols into usable streams of data on IP (Internet Protocol) networks.

On Tuesday, Intel introduced the Wind River Edge Management System, a technology stack for cloud-based control of IoT operations. It also rolled out a new generation of the Intel IoT Gateway with the Wind River software, which will allow enterprises to quickly deploy gateways and manage them for as long as they are in use.

The company also laid out a list of partners for building and deploying IoT systems in various industries. Those partners include Accenture, Capgemini, SAP, Dell and Japan’s NTT Data.

While Intel may someday ship millions more chips thanks to IoT, depending on how it fares against rivals using the ARM architecture, its end-to-end set of technologies doesn’t really exclude chips from other vendors, Gartner analyst Mark Hung said. In other words, Intel’s data center and security assets can play a role in deployments where sensors and other components may come from elsewhere. In the short term, in fact, software and security may be Intel’s biggest IoT plays when it comes to bringing in revenue, he said.

Enterprises may be interested in single-vendor, end-to-end IoT solutions for now, because they want to get the ball rolling on IoT, Hung said. But in the long run, they’ll look for combinations of “best of breed” components, a strategy that’s not feasible yet because standards haven’t solidified enough to ensure all the parts will work together, he said.

Intel’s McAfee security business introduced Enhanced Security for Intel IoT Gateways, a pre-validated solution to enhance the security of the gateways. And to serve industries that are linking older equipment to the Internet for the first time, the company is working with Siemens to add support for industrial protocols to its firewall technology.

There’s a window of two to five years to implement security in IoT, said Lorie Wigle, Intel’s vice president of IoT Security Solutions.

“It’s really critical that we build security in, particularly when we look at industrial IoT. Some of these systems may be in place for decades, so if we miss this window of opportunity, it is a big, big miss,” Wigle said.

Intel’s taking one security technology it’s developed for its own products, called EPID (Enhanced Privacy Identity), and promoting it to other silicon vendors.

EPID separates a device’s ability to prove that it’s a certain class of device from its ability to prove that it’s a unique, specific device. Each device has its own key, but there’s a single key on the other side used to validate them. One place that may be useful is in vehicles, where a car could be authorized to use shared infrastructure such as tollbooths and smart traffic lights without identifying itself as your car in particular, Wigle said. That would keep the entities that run those systems from being able to track you wherever you drive.

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Any of you a Scrum Master?

You can work at PEEL as they are hiring one

Program Manager/Scrum Master

Mountain View, California, United States · Engineering

DESCRIPTION

The Program Manager/Scrum Master will apply expert judgment to keep teams focused, remove impediments and deliver success in a fast-paced environment. You have a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to build a delivery-focused, highly collaborative culture within the teams. Success in the role requires you enable the success of your teams. Please bring a strong sense of personal accountability and be excited by the challenge of working in an Agile and innovative environment. Another key success factor for this role is identifying coupled stories which may block a team and then negotiating with the Product Owner to unravel and schedule these cross-team stories before a team is blocked.

Responsibilities 

• Schedules and facilitates sprint grooming, planning, retrospectives and the daily scrum stand-up meeting.
• Right hand man for Product Owner in developing, maintaining and grooming Product Backlog
• Actively and collaboratively manage cross-team dependencies 
• Coach and mentor your teams with the goal of continuous improvement, and leave your ego at home
• Manage and deliver features committed to by teams
• Identifies and removes critical chain impediments in order to keep teams productive 
• Provides metrics and status to management
• Establish a scrum of scrums where needed to coordinate work across several teams.

A different job

Project Coordinator - OEM Projects

California, United States

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Project Coordinator who can help support our OEM Projects. The position is based in Mountain View and requires working with OEM customers in China, Taiwan and Korea. We have multiple projects ongoing, and the job is to be the OEM Customers representative in our organization. 

Responsibilities

Track project status and update customer and internal teams on project status.

Track manage issue lists and follow up with teams for closure.

Own the release schedule to OEM customers.

Proactively identify and resolve potential roadblocks.

Work with engineering teams in US, China and India for prioritizing features and releases.

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum of 2 years direct work experience in project management, preferably in mobile applications.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Ability to work collaboratively with remote teams.

Accuracy and attention to detail, good analytical and organizational skills

Hands on experience in mobile application development.

Some experience in embedded product development.

Android applications development experience.

Some experience in application QA.

Establish and maintain positive working relationships with others, both internally and externally, to achieve the goals of the organization.

this one

Program Manager

Mountain View, California, United States

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Program Manager who can help support our OEM customers. The position is based in China (Shanghai) and will require some travel within china, along with some travel twice a quarter to our US office.

Responsibilities… 

• Be the primary contact with our Handset OEM customers.
• Track OEM release schedule and align releases with their schedule.
• Work with Customer’s Product Planning, Model Teams, and QA.
• Setup process with OEM for continuous updates and support.
• Work with engineering teams in US and India for prioritizing features and releases.
• Maintain detailed implementation schedule, and project plan.
• Communicate status, risks and change control

a total of 10 jobs there.  Nothing that speaks of the IoT YET.

Part of the title of this Blog comes from Steven Johnson's writing.
So I will look at his thoughts on coffee houses and what it means...

http://inthebooks.800ceoread.com/news/articles/interviewing-steven-johnson-where-good-ideas-come-from


One recurring theme in almost all the people that I look at is that they have a lot of hobbies. The innovators are constantly working on three, four or five pet projects—beyond their main job. - 


Consider Goog Glass,  early wearables,  sensors in unusual places as examples of pet projects beyond their main jobs.  It makes no difference that some say, who needs that and put it down....they don't get it.


RC,  let that sink in and write that e-mail.  It has been a MAJOR failure these past decade(s)or so?

The coffee shop is something he refers to....again and again.  The example...Loyds of London.  It was a coffee shop...

HISTORY

In the 17th century, London's importance as a trade centre led to an increasing demand for ship and cargo insurance. Edward Lloyd's coffee house became recognised as the place for obtaining marine insurance and this is where the Lloyd’s that we know today began.

From those beginnings in a coffee house in 1688, Lloyd’s has been a pioneer in insurance and has grown over 325 years to become the world’s leading market for specialist insurance. On the following pages you can learn about Lloyd's unique and colourful past, from its early days in Edward Lloyd’s coffee house, to the historical events that changed the face of Lloyd's forever.

Networking and exchanging caffeinated ideas......

World's first classification society 

The Society for the Registry of Shipping was set up in 1760 by customers of Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House in Lombard Street, London. The aim was to give merchants and underwriters recorded information on the quality of their vessels. The Register Book listed vessels rated, or classed, after the condition of their hulls and equipment had been surveyed. The subscriptions generated by the Register Book paid for the surveyors to carry out the work. This was the true beginning of classification and the Society was the world’s first classification society. 

http://www.lr.org/en/who-we-are/heritage/brief-history/

MEMS Congress is THE Coffee house for the sensor people to get together with the algo people, to get together with

the infrastructure,  Where ideas are exchanged and seeds for the next roadmap item are formed.

With this in mind take a few minutes and actually see QUIK's CTO speak of the MEMS Congress...

http://blog.quicklogic.com/corporate/an-interview-with-tim-saxe/

This is part and parcel.  IT IS the Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House on Lombard Street, that means QUIK will be spot on.  That they are in the ecosystem.  No premium is given to being in the MEMS/sensor fusion coffee house.  That is a very crucial coffee shop and the rewards will follow in due time.  I know not fast enough for many  ( me included ) but in some fashion that will have been worth the wait.


This snip...

revenue opportunities for IoT sensors are spread across many kinds of sensors, the report notes that more than half of the revenues in this sector--$5.8 billion--come from sensor hubs.


Consider that QUIK is working overtime to deliver the very BEST SoC for the IoT that there will be.  In this context any given slot, and when it might actually ship is less important than the listening that has occured, ie they were focused on "always on" and context aware, in 2011, when they worked in secrecy on the S1, hoping no one else would make the multiple of it.

QUIK has some of the BEST bits and pieces on its bench, it is in the MEMS sensor Coffee house.
It's so busy in that shop that the exchange of ideas would make Edward Lloyd happy.  "Just like my place on Lombard st.", he'd say.

Keep this snip of text on your minds...

While the revenue opportunities for IoT sensors are spread across many kinds of sensors, the report notes that more than half of the revenues in this sector--$5.8 billion--come from sensor hubs.

Wow, a lot is at stake here.  QUIK how much are you aiming for?

For the casual reader.  The IoT includes wearables, but the sensor fusion done in Smartphones is separate from this. 

If it's Smartphones they call it a co-processor BUT if it's 

IoT it will be called an SoC.



QUIK?  Well they will do both, exactly when they split them I don't know.
There could be 2 S3s one for the co-processor and another version for the IoT, similar but
different in some areas.

If you get to speak to QUIK start asking questions in this general area and see what you get.

Thanks in advance.

Samsung hopes to secure top spot in Internet of Things revolution

Summary:Ahead of CES 2015, Samsung's CEO talks future business, the Internet of Things and a rapidly changing tech industry.

By Charlie Osborne for Between the Lines | December 22, 2014 -- 11:02 GMT (03:02 PST)

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Samsung believes the Internet of Things will generate the next wave of consumer technology, and plans to secure a strong spot for the ride.

In an interview with Samsung's president and CEO, Boo-Keun Yoon, the executive said the Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to dramatically change our lives in the future.

IoT is, in short, the idea of connecting up home appliances and gadgets to the web. The applications of this concept are varied; from controlling home lights and security systems with your smartphone to smart fridges which tell you when items are about to expire -- or cars which alert their owners when faults emerge.

Here Samsung has an advantage over Apple,; in all those appliances that they make....

Smart meters are IoT applications which have been rolled out to a number of homes across the West. While smart meters better regulate energy use, they have caused privacy worries -- as each use of power is documented and stored, which can alert utilities to when people are at home, and even which room they are in. Not only this, but security is not being implemented to the correct standard in IoT devices, and often can be easily hacked into.

QUIK shelved its CX, which was made for security, but it may still be in the roadmap so we can track along and see what happens in security...

However, Yoon believes the "emergence of the IoT era" will "engages every facet of our daily lives, reducing the time, cost, and resources we would normally spend throughout a day."

The executive is a supporter of IoT, and claims the concept has already prompted considerable changes in the electronics giant's business model. IoT must be supported by a new ecosystem, both within and outside of the tech industry, and this in turn is promoting new business opportunities.

"The convergence of technologies will accelerate, and collaborations will multiply to fill the needs of consumers," Yoon said. "We at Samsung are committed to working with others to build the Internet of Things."

In August this year, the South Korean electronics giant snapped up IoT firm SmartThings. The US-based startup specializes in smartphone-operated home device controllers, and could prove to be a very valuable addition to Samsung's IoT portfolio.

The deal was signed for $200 million, according to reports.

Samsung is not the only company, however, interested in pursuing the Internet of Things. Rival Apple is also compiling an IoT portfolio, and has recently unveiled network protocol HomeKit for smart home inventions.

When asked what the future holds for Samsung, Yoon commented:

"There is no doubt that the IoT will lead the next wave of consumer technology, and Samsung takes great importance in contributing to this revolution and providing consumers with a variety of IoT experiences. Together with the entire industry, Samsung will continue to drive innovation and work together with others to realize the IoT era."