Electronic core news morning newspaper: the integration of the Internet and home appliances

Just a few days ago, several new products were released. Xiaomi launched a smart home kit at the Geek Innovation Park GIF Innovation Conference. It was not long before 2015, and Xiaomi actively expanded its ecosystem. Recently, from the marriage between Xiaomi and the United States, and the dynamics of 360 and Meizu, it can be seen that the combination of the home appliance industry and the Internet industry has become an indisputable fact, while home appliance companies and home appliance companies, home appliance companies and Internet companies, Internet companies and Internet companies The competition and cooperation between them is becoming more and more dramatic. So what interesting news is not to be missed in the near future? Please pay attention to today's electronic core news.

First, smart home

1, millet push smart home set. On the morning of January 18th, Xiaomi co-founder Lin Bin released the smart home kit at the GIF Innovation Conference of Geek Park, which is the first eco-chain product released by Xiaomi this year. It is reported that this set of products is not developed by Xiaomi's own team, but by the investment of Xiaomi Ecological Chain Company. At the same time, this is not the first smart home device of Xiaomi. Previously, Xiaomi has launched products such as small ant smart camera, Xiaomi smart socket, Yeelight smart light and Xiaomi intelligent remote control center. Lei Jun also revealed at the Xiaomi Note conference earlier this week that he was trying to build a smart home system centered on Xiaomi mobile phones.

2. Home appliance giants frequently date Internet companies, and swords refer to smart homes. The news that Zhou Hongyi, chairman of Qihoo 360 Company, led the team to visit Gree Electric triggered the imagination of 360 cooperation with Gree Electric. However, for further development, both sides chose to avoid the attitude. Haier hand in hand Alibaba, the United States left the Xiaomi right to hold Jingdong, the happy events of these big companies stirred the two pools of the Internet and home appliance companies spring, the unwilling big companies are also ready to move. In recent rumors, 360 and Gree, Haier and Meizu are the most promising hands to succeed.

Second, MCU / processor

1. Atmel and ARM will cooperate to launch the industry's highest performance ARM MCU. Steve Laub, President and CEO of Atmel, revealed that the upcoming Cortex-M7 product from Atmel and ARM has already provided a small number of samples to selected customers, which will be the industry's highest performance ARM MCU with high density. Storage, after release, will target high-end industrial applications, which naturally include industrial IoT applications.

2. Will Mac use Apple's own processor? Intel CEO denied. Recently, there have been rumors that Apple will give up cooperation with Intel and switch to the Mac with its own ARM processor. However, in an interview, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said that the relationship between Intel and Apple is still very close, and reiterated Intel's market competition strategy based on performance, price and reliability, indirectly denying the previous rumors.

Third, the Internet of Things

1. The Internet of Things surpassed the Internet within 10 years. "The Internet of Things is not a trend, but a reality." This is the latest view released by the president of Samsung Electronics, Yin Fugen, at CES 2015. The recent data released by American consulting firm Gartner tells you that the Internet of Things is really coming. Gartner predicts that the number of IoT devices worldwide will reach 4.9 billion units in 2015, and will also generate $69.5 billion in revenue. In 2020, the number of IoT devices will reach 25 billion units, and the marginal revenue associated with the Internet of Things may reach 263 billion US dollars.