ARM Holdings plc (ADR) (ARMH) & This Tiny Chip Will Stake a Big Claim on the Internet of Things

There are bound to be plenty of uses for this tiny microcontroller, even if Freescale has to make do without a paired Wi-Fi chip for the time being. General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) has been developing its own version of the Internet of Things, called the “industrial Internet,” and dozens (or hundreds) of tiny Freescale chips might serve as a distributed sensor network in jet engines, wind turbines, or MRI machines, each connected to a central transmitter. Or the devices might be used to monitor manufacturing lines, with a chip attached to each component and scanned as it moves through the process. Even so, these chip-without-a-connection ideas are only going to be stopgaps on the road to the ultimate goal: man and machine, two great things that go better together.

How long will it take from the first implanted microcontroller to the first Star-Trek-like cyborg? Maybe we’ll find out soon enough.

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