Intel

Top Executive: Brian Krzanich, CEO

In 2016, Intel quickened its charge into the Internet of Things, with CEO Brian Krzanich in April outlining a new company strategy focus on cloud and IoT.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has been moving away from its roots in PC semiconductors to prioritize end-to-end connected offerings such as intelligent gateways and embedded chips.

At the Intel Developer Forum, the company also took the wraps off Joule, a module built for IoT applications by pack­ing a high-performance system-on-module into a low-power package.

Intel partners, for their part, can take advantage of the chip company's Intel Inside IoT platform, which includes a refer­ence architecture and family of products -- such as IoT gate­ways and Intel IoT Developer Kit.