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Mike Demler gave the keynote at the Linley IoT conference a couple of weeks ago. He is a senior analyst there, and also a senior editor of Microprocessor Report and Mobile Chip Report. His background is in analog and mixed-signal design at companies like TI and GE. And Cadence. In fact, he worked for me in marketing years ago back when I ran the (then) Custom IC Division.

At the Embedded Vision Summit earlier this month, Chris Rowen used the two graphs below to point out how fast "deep learning" has gone from not even on the Gartner Hype Cycle chart to being at peak hype. Meanwhile, in 2014, IoT was at peak hype, and in 2015, it is still there. Every time I blink, the number of "things" seems to have gone up a billion or two. Mike started by putting it into perspective: 25B things means 3.5 per person. Some of these are PCs, servers, smart TVs, smartphones, and so on, not new "things" but established markets. The focus of the IoT conference is new things, incremental applications and emerging markets, including embedded systems that were previously not connected. So iconic examples are smart electrical power meters and smart thermostats like Nest.

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