Intel aims for 'smart' embedded SoC

R. Colin Johnson, EETimes
11/12/2010 1:36 AM EST

PORTLAND, Ore.—Intel Corp. is aiming to exploit "smart sensing opportunities in embedded markets" according to Vida Ilderem, vice president of Intel Labs, who gave the closing keynote at the MEMS Executive Congress in Scottsdale, Ariz., last week.

Ilderem was hired away from Motorola's Applied Research and Technology Center last year where she was vice presidentof Systems and Technology Research, responsible for developing Motorola's current communication and interaction technologies, including the visual, computational and RF system-on-chip technologies. At Intel she is directing the efforts of 200 engineers toward RF, wireless SoC and associated physical technologies at Intel's Integrated Platform Research lab. Ilderem reports directly to Intel's chief technology officer, Justin Rattner.

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