Altera

West Coast USA: California, Silicon Valley, internet start-ups. Could it be any more different from the East Coast – and surely it’s a hot-bed of developer interest in M2M and IoT, asks Guy Daniels.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal (Friday, March 27, 2015) Intel is in talks to buy Altera. Here, Tom Hackenberg, IHS‘s principal analyst, embedded processing, explains that the Industrial Internet of Things is a key motivation for the deal.