ARM Chips May Spread Into Everyday Items - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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This is the so-called Internet of Things, when all sorts of everyday objects will have tiny chips placed inside them and gain the ability to process information and talk to the Web.
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ARM chips, by contrast, are made by a handful of contract chip manufacturers and cost 65 cents to $20 each.
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ARM executives agree that the future is with the billions of coming things — cars, refrigerators, TVs, clothes, buildings — that will have full-blown chips or at least Web-ready sensors inside them. In many cases, they say, these things will need the lowest-power chips possible because they will be out in the world and away from a plug. Energy has replaced horsepower as the prime concern, and it is here, ARM executives said, that the company’s skills will really shine.
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I especially love the last quote of this interesting article: "... Now, it's all about penetrating these weird markets that we can't even fully fathom yet." Maybe the ARM chip will be behind a disruptive innovation - it's fun to think about the possibilities -
We have a reading on "ubiquitous computing" later in the semester that gets into these fascinating issues and how they might affect education.
