IoT and M2M markets to grow to 290 billion dollars

IoT and M2M markets to grow to 290 billion dollars

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Forget the PC market, the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine communications market is to grow to 290 billion dollars in the next 4 years.

And Linux is there just waiting to pluck the market.

China SoC vendors would have spearheaded this move, but all of them have shot themselves in the foot with NDAs covering their chips, and there is not a single engineer out there in China that knows how all parts of the average SoC works now despite big factories making tons of profit selling Android tablets and phones and not re-investing it all in documentation and NDA free SoCs, because they know nothing beyond booting Android.

There is move to adopt Ubuntu Linux as the national OS in CN but critical mistake here again is that all the chips are NDA'd - so there is no hope for any engineer in China wishing to port Ubuntu to SoCs for their government because there is no information available to download freely on all the SoCs and for engineers to be getting on with the work!!! The China government and China factories that make and sell SoCs have both shot themselves in the foot with the same bullet!!

If you survey the SoC producer web sites, there really is no information on SoCs at all.

Compare that with for example the Freescale web site.

6000 pages of documentation on the iMX6Q and thats just the user manual ONLY!!! Then you got all the other documentation on all the other aspects of getting the iMX6Q quad core operational. Some stuff like video codecs is still NDA'd but it has no impact on you having the ability to make board with it and make money for yourself and the factories.

So the 290 billion dollar opportunity now is in EU and US, and for the SoC vendors to really ramp up production of the big SoCs, get the documentation done NDA free like it normally is done, and then all the engineers will come flooding in to port Linux to SoCs and then the IoT and M2M markets will develop and most of it in EU and US.

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