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''Thread will be one way to connect so-called smart home devices to each other and to the Internet. With backing from Google’s Nest division, ARM Holdings, Samsung and now Qualcomm, it looks set for wide adoption. At least two of the Thread Group’s founding members, Freescale Semiconductor and Silicon Labs, say they already have Thread solutions available for manufacturers to use in product development.''

http://www.cio.com/article/2949073/chip-vendors-hit-the-ground-running-with-thread-iot-spec.html

chipsters; if we could land something with Qual/FreeScale , b nice

''Get ready for some big changes in the “silicon” of Silicon Valley''

https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/28/one-chip-to-rule-them-all-the-internet-of-things-and-the-next-great-era-of-hardware/

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