Embedded chips to fuel Internet's growth

Intel believes the growth of the Internet will be fueled in the next few years by low-power embedded chips. Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president at Intel, said during a speech at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco that systems connected to the Internet will include infotainment systems in cars, navigation devices, and hardware associated with public places like health networks and traffic controls.

He said Intel is now developing embedded chips based on the Atom architecture for devices like mobile phones, set-top boxes and ATMs. Gelsinger, however, also said the company faces some challenges, including reliability, power consumption and life of those chips.

For more on insight into the future:
 - see this PCWorld.com article