Dialog Semiconductor buys Creative Chips for industrial IoT: Dialog has purchased Creative Chips for $80 million to expand its industrial IoT options. Creative Chips makes silicon for rugged ethernet. Even as factories go wireless, we're still going … [Read more...]
CES day 4 was all about tech going new places
Wednesday was mostly meeting-free and I dedicated my time to wandering around the Las Vegas Convention Center trying to find cool things or new ideas. I kicked off the day with John Deere (NYSE: DE) discussing the latest in ag tech. I've been talking … [Read more...]
Smarter weed detection at an industrial scale
At Bosch Connected World, I spoke with Toby Meene of Bayer about weed-killing technology the agriculture giant was developing with Bosch. The technology would compete with the Blue River tech that John Deere acquired last year. However, the … [Read more...]
IoT could remake the way we think about broadband
Amid the gadgets at CES I had a profound moment where my thinking abruptly changed. In a conversation with John Deere about 5G one of the participants mentioned that for the last year the company had been trying to work with regulatory agencies to … [Read more...]
The next step in IoT is vision, so let’s give computers depth perception
I talk a lot about computer vision because I think it's a core enabling technology for vastly more efficient understanding and use of the world around us. When a computer can see, it can apply its intense analytical powers to the images and offer … [Read more...]