" Hello Blue Genie" Can you run this info through your FPGA inference engines for us?""You bet jfieb,..."" Notice that with a software app partner, like PEEL, that the adjacent possible changes just like that. They have a solid presence in India and China and some strong partners.Notice HOW the adjacent possible need not be some 5 x10 foot broom closet, but it can be a beautiful gala ballroom just as easily."
I learned this part today...
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ion-labs-rd-division/articleshow/49089227.cms
Silicon Valley based Peel acquires Fission Labs R&D division
By ECONOMICTIMES.COM | Updated: Sep 24, 2015, 03.06 PM IST
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Days before the much-anticipated visit by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Silicon Valley to focus on supporting innovation & technology in India, Silicon Valley based Peel, a smart remote maker, has announced they are acquiring the Cloud R&D division of Hyderabad-based Fission Labs which will now become Peel India. With a three-year sales growth of
Alibaba-funded Peel ranked 287 among the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies this year.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
PEEL may have an announcement for CES, also they have been busy in BaRCELONA in yrs past.
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Peel Smart Remote App Revamp Showcases YouTube and India-Centric Content
Manish Singh, 18 December 2015
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Peel, a smart home control and television tune-in player, has redesigned its user interface with a recent update to add support for YouTube streaming channels. The redesign aims to make it easier for users to discover content right on the home screen. The app now taps on both TV listing of your local operator and streaming content libraries to show you results. Peel also plans to give recommendations on a user's past TV viewing behaviour.
Peel Smart Remote, which already supports a large pool of Indian set top box services including Airtel,Tata Sky, Dish TV, Hathway, and DEN, announced on Friday that it is adding more features aimed at Indian users. Starting with Peel v6.1 on Android (handsets that have an IR sensor), users will be able to find content from YouTube and keep up with their favourite channels. The integration now allows users to find Indian movies and TV shows available on YouTube.
The company also announced plans to launch 45 CatchUp TV series, which will be available in a number of Indian regional languages. The company told Gadgets 360 that it is currently negotiating with content players in the country.
Peel confirmed to us that iPhone users will not be able to utilise the new feature, as they are required to possess a separate device called Pronto, which isn't available in India yet. Peel plans to launch Pronto in the country in the coming months.
NOtice anything?
QUIK has added CyWee motion and PEEL has a focus on India. The stuff we have tightly integrated starts to make it easy to go Eos?
I wonder how many languages PEEL will start with? Its not so important as yhey will just expand from a core into the adjacent ones.
"Our goal has always been to make the experience of consuming video entertainment easier and more enjoyable," said Peel CEO and Co-Founder Thiru Arunachalam. "As more and more of our users diversify their entertainment consumption to include streamed content, it makes sense for us to simplify their journey to find something good to watch no matter what the source or destination is."
Peel currently has more than 135 million registered users and is actively partnering with Indian smartphone manufacturers and some that sell handsets here to preload its app on their devices. Some of these manufacturers include Karbonn Mobiles, Xolo, Gionee, Panasonic, and Celkon.
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Smart Remote App Peel Technologies Expands in Asia
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PEEL TECHNOLOGIES
U.S.-based smart remote control application Peel Technologies is gearing up for global expansion after securing funding from Chinese Internet giant Alibaba.
The company, which raised $5 million from Alibaba in 2013 and closed a second round of funding of $50 million in June, has acquired a Shanghai-based rival Mozitek for an undisclosed sum to jump start its efforts in China, the country with over 1.2 billion mobile users.
The Peel smart remote control application, which can is installed on select smartphones, uses an infrared blaster in order to communicate with anything that uses a remote control including TVs, set top boxes and air conditioners.
Some hardware manufacturers integrate Peel’s infrared software in their phones, eliminating the need for certain chips to manage the infrared blaster, reducing costs, space required and energy usage, according to Thiru Arunachalam, a former product manager at Apple who co-founded Peel in 2009.
The Peel smart remote control, which has over 118 million active users, is also expanding its presencein India by forming partnerships with local phone makers including Spice,Celkon and Lava Xolo.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Peel Co-founder and CEO Arunachalam discusses the company’s strategy and expansion plans. Edited excerpts:
WSJD: What is your approach to the China’s market?
Arunachalam: Peel has always been a global first, mobile first company. China was always considered as one of the important global markets for us to conquer because it has a large and growing consumer base for smartphones and there are so many fast-growing Chinese smartphone vendors with global aspirations. We studied what Google did in China before entering the market. Some foreign companies actually tried to take their products and force theminto China. But Peel has adopted a local strategy. We are different from Google who sent their U.S. engineers to China. We acquired a local smart remote control company, Mozitek, to take advantage of the company’s localized products and existing sales relationships with Chinese hardware makers. Mozitek’s CEO has become Peel’s head of sales for China. I want the local team to operate independently with its own line of Chinese products and clients.We also have teamed up with Chinese hardware makers ZTE and TCL as they know the local consumer behavior.
WSJD: What are your growth targets for China’s market?
Arunachalam: We are now focusing on growing our users in China first before thinking of making money. In the U.S. market, we only started monetizing our application in the fourth-year of operation. We will continue to beef up our team in China and we aim to have 100 million users in the country by 2016. U.S. is a small country compared to China and Latin America. Currently, 35% of our users are from North America, 30% are from Asia and 25% come from Europe.I expect our user distribution will change as China’s market will continue to grow. China is great for us as many Chinese hardware makers also manufacture devices for India, another important market in Asia.
WSJD: How would Alibaba help Peel’s expansion in China?
Arunachalam: Alibaba is currently helping with strategic advice regarding developing relationships with Chinese hardware manufacturers, distribution partners and local acquisitions, as well as assisting with introduction to potential business development and marketing partners. To date, Alibaba has taken a relatively hands-off approach to its investment, encouraging Peel to focus on consumer experience and rapid growth rather than revenue.
WSJD: Would Alibaba’s investment affect your potential cooperation with other major Chinese Internet companies?
Arunachalam: Commercial cooperation is not a problem. There is no reason that we cannot work with Tencent and other Chinese Internet companies. In fact, we are working with Chinese search engine Baidu to promote our customized shareable URL links that let users tune in directly to TV shows. Peel will also partner with China’s Twitter-like social platform Sina Weibo to reach more users in the country.
WSJD: Is Peel in talks or looking to acquire more technology companies in China and Asia?
Arunachalam : Yes, we are keeping an eye out for potential synergistic companies to acquire. Peel currently has sales offices in both South Korea and India.
WSJD: What do you think of competition with other smart remote control applications?
Arunachalam: We know the customers and we already have millions of users. I doubt if other rivals can catch up as we have scale. We also have patents to protect our technology
The Adjacent Possible starts to show with every one of these software deals we read of.
You should be happy about the China/India adjacent possible.
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Company Overview of MOZITEK Inc.
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MOZITEK Inc. operates a multi screen platform that offers an electronic program guide (EPG) data center and data services to its users. The company is based in Shanghai, China. As of June 12, 2014, MOZITEK Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Peel, Inc.
Get used to this... PEEL has IoT ambitions, they have been a China a nice amount of time and know some very HUIGE names there. TENCENT has 750 million immersed users.
China doesn't want the touch screen for input.
Also, I got to REACTIVATE this folder, all that work we did was it really a waste of resources or will it b worth it.......
consider that it was not wasted at all. We will get to use that effort and add to it when we read about the new way the app works.
I really like the CHina angle as you add CyWee into the mix......
It only says TV, but PEEL sees IoT in their adjacent possible
Microsoft Cortana Leverages Peel for Smart Home Solution
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Microsoft Cortana has partnered with Peel to leverage the company’s home intelligence along with our 150M connected homes to make Proactive Assistant-enabled smart home a reality. The Peel-Cortana collaboration was demoed this past week at the Microsoft Brand conference, and will be available for download to Windows Mobile phones soon. Among other things, the Peel Smart Remote has integrated with some of Cortana’s features, including location awareness, to generate on-the-fly, contextually aware intelligent home control suggestions.
we can see where it leads
PS.. The conclusion was PEEL?
A waste of time that went nowhere. It seems that might not B accurate? tracking along...
PEEL has reason to want Voice...well beyond TV channels?
http://ir.quicklogic.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1004621
- Voice-enabled TV remote control with Peel's SmartIR technology
April 05, 2016 15:11 ET
Baidu Research and Peel Collaborate on Next-Generation Voice-Enabled Smart Home Products
Companies Demonstrate Beta Version at GPU Technology Conference
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 5, 2016) - Baidu Research, a division of Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), today announced a technology collaboration with Peel.
Baidu's Deep Speech technology will be integrated into Peel's AI-based platform for home control to create next-generation voice-enabled smart home products.
Peel, based in Mountain View, CA, offers a popular universal remote app called Peel Smart Remote for smartphones and tablets. It has more than 150 million users in 200 countries and 10 billion monthly remote commands.
Deep Speech is a state-of-the-art speech recognition system developed using "end-to-end deep learning" by Baidu Research's Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL).
The companies are demonstrating a beta version of Peel's voice-based remote at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA on April 5-7 (Baidu Research booth #207).
The Peel demo uses speech recognition to access live TV, DVR and streaming content seamlessly across devices. For example, using voice commands, a user can switch between House of Cards on Roku and Game of Thrones on cable TV, or ask to see a line-up of comedy shows or programs about the US presidential election.
Baidu's Adam Coates, who leads the SVAIL team, said: "Speech recognition is at an inflection point. In the future, it will be as easy to talk to your devices as it is to talk to the person next to you. We are excited about the potential of the collaboration with Peel to bring that experience to users."
Peel Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Bala Krishnan added: "This collaboration is opening up new exciting possibilities for our users. Voice command and artificial intelligence are the foundation for the next generation of Peel universal home control."
this snipIn 2017, we should see the beginnings of specialized hardware for “inference” – using those graphics-trained neural networks in a real time environment. Somewhat to our surprise, our checks show that Xilinx is emerging as a leader in this segmentI make a LOT of use of Steven Johnson's lens of his writing, with some emphasis on the Adjacent Possible as well as other concepts of his. I have been working on this stuff for many months now. Some commentary.It has just come out of nowhere this past yr and moved swiftly into Steven Johnson's area if expertise.... Strictly from his work and what is at stake here, ie intelligence. The valueto get this on your bench is a NO LIMIT item. You just get it; you open the wallet and fork it over.FPGA=InferenceDSP= training.Facebook is doing inference right now ON THE DEVICE. How? ( Don't know)THe adjacent possible and the urgency says they will try a SoC, with FGPAs on it, to run really fast inference ON the device.IF it works, the talk they are excited to put on XLNX will also apply to QUIK IP.Glo FO came to QUIK...the interest in FPGA IP on an IoT device may start out for bigger market TAM, but be prepared that it may shift to on device INFERENCE.If this comes to be noticed the value of QUIK IP moves up in a very dramatic fashion. QUIK does NOT have to invest in the " Inference Engine" others may do it. If Eos sells enough QUIK has the bits and pieces to make the very best, Neural network learning/inference enigne that will exist for on device application.Thnks for this item Danielle, its great reading.Again I can only imagine what someone like Dr. Saxe is thinking over now.QUIK will not take its eye off of the current focus and I realize not many want to hear of this adjacent possible until they sell something. It IS real and this emergence of FPGA= Inferenceis a VERY big deal and the value of their IP is LOT more than we have considered.
But if ONE of the Smartest humans on the planet discusses this show the thread should really not be skipped but studied carefully as it is really the adjacent possible for us, for good and bad.
Steven Hawking on Westworld....
http://www.refinery29.com/2016/12/132180/stephen-hawking-predicted-westworld-finale
And Stephen Hawking, who many consider the smartest living human, predicted the whole thing two years ago. Hello Giggles drew our attention to this interview he gave to the BBC in 2014, nearly two years to the day before the finale ofWestworld. It's shockingly prescient.
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," Hawking said, citing the potential for AI to evolve much faster than biology allows.
http://www.refinery29.com/2016/12/132180/stephen-hawking-predicted-westworld-finale
Me, AM blown away at what has happened in '16, Neural networks, inference engines, the current belief that FPGA IS HOW to do this. Most in the cloud, but some BIG dogs want it ON THE DEVICE,
FPGA IP has jumped up in value by a LOT is what the adjacent possible has to say.
Nice listen focused on voice recognition and AI...
Conversational computing..http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtal...cho-to-siri-why-ai-based-voice-recognition-i/Westworld tv show....so many people talk about it, watch it...Ive not seen it. Any fans out there?Say what you want and nothing else matters it just happens like magic. Just the beginning, but important.Global scaling ( ie languages) changes so much.How good is Sensory Mandarin?
Realtime universal translation.
GOG Assistant, 30 steps to order a Pizza, Rube Goldburg.
Setting timers, playing music, the exciting things will expand.
Accuracy,
Privacy.....cloud or local processing....talked about. Wake phrases- the wake phrase Always on.
IoT voice everywhere. Don't open apps, just talk, constant integration into your life...
I think that is another definition of immersive....
constant integration into your life, the closing part is a nice expansion of the Brain Faith comments to Rick's q. on Immersive.
ABOUT 15 MIN MARK.
I just can't wait to read of the Eos/ Software (APP) reference design. The first of them.
WHat is the drive?
As a part owner of this business where I liked a good algo ( Aplical) QUIK does not have to sell the GEEKyness.
So evaluate the CES reference design based on this talk..... does it bring about something that integrates inself into your life.
does it breathe life ingo an inanimate object ( VIV definition of immersive.)?
Waze HAS to loose the touchscreen ASAP is a fine mental model of the adjacent possible, these steps will just not stop they will keep pushing how well it can integrate into your life
On QCOM and eFPGA. Consider this...MEMS & Sensors Industry Group Invites OEMs to Get Personal with MEMS and Sensors at CES 2017January 5, 2017 conference track explores MEMS/sensors' connection to unique user experiences with consumer products
- Machine Learning is a big deal and that’s why we’re including it in our conference, compliments of Qualcomm’s Jeff Gehlhaar
Conference Agenda
- Cognitive Technologies -- Machines Thinking Like People -- Jeff Gehlhaar, vice president of technology, Qualcomm
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Two of the primary factors that drive technology adoption are the availability of hardware and the availability of content or applications. The best place to understand the progress of both will be in a few weeks, at CES 2017.
Brian Faith in the last cc.
The second trend is the implementation of new use cases that can only be delivered with always-on / always listening voice activation and control. Our unique hardware integrated solution for Sensory voice technology enables this use case with significantly lower power consumption than the software implementations of Sensory’s technology that is used in over a billion smartphones today.
Later this month we will introduce a more advanced evaluation system that integrates Sensory voice technology and CyweeMotion algorithms in a single platform. This integrated evaluation system will enable OEMs to efficiently evaluate immersive voice activated sensor fusion use cases and clearly illustrate the substantial power savings delivered by our EOS S3 Sensor Processing Solution.
To extend this leverage, we are in the process of broadening the scope of our ecosystem partnership strategy to include leading smartphone application providers that have already established installed bases in excess of 100 million smartphones.
We are currently in discussions with multiple software companies that could benefit from incorporating our unique ultra-low power always-on / always-listening voice interface. We expect to display a joint reference design that we developed with one of these partners at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this coming January. We will announce additional partnerships and reference designs as we move through 2017. We think this strategy has very significant potential.
For casual readers.........the following is a MUST read, 5 start item.
"Hello blue Genie, can you tell us what the Huffington Post says about CES 2017?"
"Hi jfieb, yes, here is what they see..."
THE BLOG
What’s Out and What’s In at CES 2017
12/13/2016 08:40 pm ET
By Tony Bailey, SVP, Technology, DigitasLBi
Mobile (Out), Voice and Mixed Reality (In)
In just a few weeks, several hundred thousand people will head to Las Vegas right after New Year’s Day. They’re not going because they want to put their resolutions to the ultimate test; they’re going because of the annual ritual that is CES, the Consumer Electronics Show.
For much of the show’s history, CES was for industry insiders. The buyers from electronics stores. The journalists covering product launches. The manufacturers looking for new suppliers. And that’s still the majority of attendees.
But CES is no longer just an electronics show for the latest gadgets and biggest TVs. It’s turning into a kickoff for media companies ahead of the Upfronts. It’s a startup showcase that’s eclipsing SXSW. It’s also becoming a major destination for marketers who want to better understand how customers will consume content and interact with brands in the year ahead.
With over 3,600 exhibitors covering nearly 2.5 million square feet of exhibition space, it’s easy to get caught up with the demonstrations of self-driving cars, underwater drones, and curvy cinema screens. But look deeper, and you’ll see a bigger theme developing this year.
The Post-Mobile Phone Era: Voice and Mixed Reality Take Center Stage
One big trend you’ll see: the mobile phone’s era of dominance is coming to an end. How did this happen? Ask yourself this: when was the last time you used a desktop computer with a keyboard and a mouse, outside of the office? It may have been because the site you were visiting wasn’t cutting it on your phone or tablet. The phone was primary, while the desktop computer was a trusty backup.
We’re now getting close to a time when the mobile phone becomes the backup device when using voice commands spoken to a digital assistant or using an Augmented Reality headset don’t get the right results.
That may sound like far off science fiction — until you go to CES and see it for yourself. This massive shift will turn the “screens and pixels” thinking of the last 20 years upside down. Brands that are still trying to master mobile will find this particularly jarring.
Of all the trends on display at CES 2017, the two most important for brand marketers to pay attention to are Voice and Mixed Reality (AR/VR). With the furious pace of innovation, increases in computing power, and advances in Artificial Intelligence, these two mediums provide a way to interact with machines that’s far more natural than tapping on a tiny screen.
Digital Assistants Gain Ground; VR & AR for Education
With the advances made with smartphone digital assistants like Google Now, Siri, and Cortana, consumers are quite comfortable with spoken commands — asking about the weather or sending a quick text. It’s easy to see why. When the speech recognition works, it’s a very natural way of interacting that isn’t nearly as immersive as navigating a phone screen. It’s also far more productive, as most people speak 4 times faster than they type.
Last year at CES 2016, the big surprise was how quickly Voice became the new Swipe for controlling consumer electronics. Many of the products on display with some sort of voice recognition were being powered by Amazon’s Alexa Voice Services — an SDK that Amazon deftly released into the world in 2015 for developers who wanted to embed the power of speech recognition into their product.
Why should marketers pay attention to these digital assistants? As products like Google Home and the Echo grow, the human voice becomes the primary way to get information. In an average home with 7.8 connected devices – devices onto which marketers have traditionally fought to get app installs — there’s now one shared device that’s a go-to for everyone in the house.
The same is true for mixed reality. Real world applications for VR and AR, while limited to gaming so far, are developing for education. It’s no surprise that it would be more intuitive to learn from a realistic 3D environment instead of a 2D book or video. Recent CES shows have featured vendors who make the glasses, and this year we’ll see more companies showing apps built on the glasses.
Next Frontier
In both cases we are looking at a new frontier for marketers. Neither are exactly mainstream just yet, but they are close to “crossing the chasm”. Two of the primary factors that drive technology adoption are the availability of hardware and the availability of content or applications. The best place to understand the progress of both will be in a few weeks, at CES 2017.
Availability of hardware? Check we got that really, really good....
Content or applications? We don't know who yet but they are with the hardware.
Use this item to understand just how good QUIK has done to skate to where the puck is going to be/is.
CES gonna be a whole lot of fun.
"Hello Blue Genie? Can you get me an appointment in one of QUIKs 2 conference rooms?"
"I'm sorry jfieb you should have spoken sooner, they are none available they are just booked."
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http://www.zdnet.com/article/lattice-semiconductor-advances-mobile-fpga-capabilities/
Lattice Semiconductor advances FPGA capabilities
With the release of the iCE40 UltraPlus, Lattice adds key enhancements to its FPGA family that will drive innovation in IoT and mobile.
Today, most of the deployments are not with an embedded solution but with the FPGA sitting on a board next to the processor.”
But one thing you read is IoT = SoC.
So it may take a little time, but IF QUIK/others get licenses it will eat into those who only sit next to the processor.
So its good that GLo Fo approached QUIK.
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A very nice read from one of the IP FPGA guys... it shines a light on why folks will want SoC + FPGA...
So Lattice so far is discrete, eFPGA if it catches on will make it interesting.
PMCW points out the fact that the TOOLS to do this will be important and QUIK's history of 30 yrs will be great as they roll the Borealis out.
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Embedded versus discrete
http://www.edn.com/design/systems-design/4443090/Make-SoCs-flexible-with-embedded-FPGA
With discrete FPGAs, however, the outer rim of the chip provides a combination of GPIO, SERDES, and specialized PHYs such as DDR3/4. In advanced FPGAs, the IO ring is roughly 1/4 of the chip and the “fabric” is roughly 3/4 of the chip. The “fabric” itself is mostly interconnect in today’s FPGA chips, with 20-25% of the fabric area being programmable logic and 75-80% as programmable interconnect.
An embedded FPGA, on the other hand, is an FPGA fabric, but without the surrounding ring of GPIO, SERDES, and PHYs. Instead, the embedded FPGA can connect to the rest of the chip it is embedded into using standard digital signaling. This connectivity enables very wide, very fast, and very low-latency interconnects unobtainable with discrete FPGAs.
The highlighted part is great for the AI sort of stuff that is happening now.
This snip again....
This connectivity enables very wide, very fast, and very low-latency interconnects unobtainable with discrete FPGAs.
So appealing sounding that it HAS to happen. I mean its the adjacent possible now....every day the appearance of FPGA and neural networks in the same sentence increases the value of FPGA IP by a LOT.
PS As I listened to a local pop radio station and the DJ was talking, he used the phrase "neural network" in a non tech item.
I was really amazed at how fast things are changing.
New phrases are being coined... Inference engine.. is one recent one I came across. In the Cloud they are running a LOT of inference on FPGAs. Facebook wants inference ON THE DEVICE.
Dr Saxe, " What do you think about this?"
