Intel Makes a Move into Vision Intelligence IoT Business

Intel plays a lot of roles in the IT business besides making processors with microscopic transistors for servers, PCs, the internet of things, and mobile devices. It also makes security hardware and software, memory and programmable enterprise solutions, 5G connectivity hardware and software and a list of others too long to note here. But one of the greenest fields coming into the venerable chipmaker's view here in mid-2018 has to do with what's called "the edge"--that mysterious, nebulous and more distributed area outside the data center where a lot of computing is starting to happen and will be happening more and more as time goes on. We're hearing a lot about this lately, largely because our devices (smartphones, laptops, tablets, IoT devices) on the fringes of centralized systems can hold much more information and do more with it than in years past. Intel wants to make more and more of the infrastructure for these devices and systems.