Does Intel still have opportunities in areas such as IoT/UAV?

After years of falling personal computers and a total failure of smartphone processors, Intel has become a dangerous company with no future. In the past few years, Intel has launched frequent acquisitions for new areas such as autonomous driving, automotive chips, drones, and the Internet of Things. However, the media has noticed that the market space and competition in these new fields are still very large. It is certain that they are not yet the next pillar business that can replace computer chips.

Intel has already deployed a number of new areas, but taking drone chips as an example, how big the market is in the future, and what kind of market position Intel can get, are filled with too many question marks.

According to the US financial investment website Fool, the new areas of Intel's layout are as follows:

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things covers a wide range of fields, such as smart cars and smart homes. Intel itself predicts that by 2020, there will be 200 billion IoT devices in the world.

In order to develop the IoT chip market, Intel established the IoT business unit in 2013, which launched the pocket computers "Curi" and "Edison" for IoT devices, and also introduced a low-power chip quark.

Intel frequently participates in the exhibition, and also promotes its own pocket computer through the incubator organization for IoT R&D companies. But so far, IoT devices account for only 4% of the company's total revenue, and the proportion of total profits is less than 4%.

After Qualcomm monopolized the mid- to high-end mobile phone chip market, it also began to enter the Internet of Things, which will put tremendous pressure on Intel.

Drone

Market consultancy PWC predicts that by 2020, the global drone market will grow from the current $2 billion market to $127 billion. This market includes drones that serve a variety of uses, such as consumer, express, military, photography, and corporate-specific areas.

In order to exploit the opportunities of drones, Intel has invested in a number of drone manufacturers, such as Airwave, Precisionhawk, China's Yuneec, etc., in addition to cooperating with Ascending to develop drone air crash technology.

In addition, in the drone design reference program, Intel also integrated its own Atom processor and space sensing technology.

Earlier this year, Intel also worked with AT&T in the United States to develop drones to communicate using 4G networks.

In contrast, Qualcomm is also constantly moving in the field of drones. Qualcomm has launched an integrated chip solution for drones called "Jilong Flight Platform". Intel’s investment in Yuneec has even become the first user of the Qualcomm platform. Obviously, how much Intel’s investment in some drone manufacturers is questionable.

Car chip

According to BI Intelligence, the current proportion of cars connected to the Internet is only 13%, and will increase to 75% by 2020.

Earlier this year, Qualcomm introduced the Opteron A series of processors, which are mainly used in automotive entertainment information systems and navigation systems. Intel's chips have been used in some in-vehicle systems by Hyundai, BMW, and Kia.

In order to expand the power of automotive chips, Intel acquired Yogitech in April, and the company's products are designed to be related to autonomous vehicles. In May, Intel re-acquired Itseez, a company that focuses on visual recognition systems for cars that allow cars to identify obstacles on the road.

Just in July, Intel announced a partnership with BMW and Mobileye to develop autonomous driving technology.

5G chip

In May, Intel confirmed that it will no longer upgrade the Atom chip, which means officially announced that it has failed in the mobile phone chip market.

However, Intel also has a baseband chip business, and the company also announced that it will develop baseband chips based on 5G networks.

According to media reports, Intel has already received orders for some new mobile phone baseband chips from Apple this year, and will be able to gradually erode the market share of Qualcomm baseband processors in the future.

However, foreign media also analyzed that the baseband chip order of Apple's mobile phone has too little influence on Intel's overall business and stock price, and it is difficult to become Intel's lifeline.

In addition, in the smart phone industry, manufacturers have used system chips that integrate baseband chips and application processors (such as Opteron chips and MediaTek products, and system chips are also called SOCs). Therefore, Intel’s separate baseband chip business is not optimistic. .

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