Closer Look: Intel Curie Steps Into World Of Wearables

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With a button-size microcomputer, Intel hopes to re-engineer the world of wearable technology and Internet of Things.

The Intel Curie module is the company’s latest prototype, tiny technology that bundles essential components to operate wearable technology. It runs on the Intel Quark SE SoC, the company’s first wearable-centric system. It also includes sensors that Intel promises will reinvent health and fitness monitoring.

Last year Intel debuted Edison, which was specifically designed for Internet of Things-focused engineers and developers.

’But as engineers, we knew we could do better,’ Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told CES 2015 attendees, when promoting Curie. ’We knew we could make computers and computing even smaller.’

Intel hopes the dime-size Curie will boost the market for wearables that require real-time running applications, such as social media applications. Mobility hardware partners can also utilize Curie to develop technologies that are the size of rings, pendants and actual buttons.

Intel has said it expects it to ship by the second half of 2015.

PUBLISHED FEB. 4, 2015