Death to strap-ons, says Intel, yet thrusts its little AI stick into us all

Intel, having accepted the inevitable, has dropped out of the wearables and fitness band game, and canned the teams working on that strap-on tech. Now it's shifted its attention to the next thing it will presumably quickly lose interest in: a USB stick for running machine-learning workloads. Having read between the lines over the past six months, you'd have been forgiven for assuming Chipzilla had given up on the wearables market. Since around 2015, Intel has been going bonkers for smartwatches, health trackers, drones, toys, and similar gizmos – yet it hasn't really talked about them in what feels like ages. Last month, Intel killed off a bunch of chips that were supposed to the used in the embedded and low-end space.