Intel Trying To Eliminate Wires From Devices Amid Cord Cutting

for technologies that “waterfall” to smaller and smaller devices due to miniaturization, increased processing power and “halved” manufacturing costs. Shaping the consumer electronics industry over the next five to 10 years are innovation in personal computing; creating new technology experiences by eliminating wiring and passwords; and buildout of the IoT. Skaugen cited the 50 billion connected devices expected to be in the market by 2020, where anything that can be made to compute and connect “will do so.” The results will benefit users’ lifestyle, health, safety and “many unimagined results,” while creating volumes of cloud-based data, he said. Intel’s version of “cord-cutting” means cutting out cords altogether, said Skaugen, citing the Rezence wireless charging standard and proximity-based peripheral syncing that will cut the cord between a monitor and a PC. This wire-free computing, based on WiGig, enables monitors to start up automatically when in proximity to a PC, he said. Intel’s vision by 2016, said Skaugen, is to “eliminate all wires from computing,” and that includes charging cables, data transfer and HDMI cables for convenience and e-waste reasons. Intel is working on new ways to interact with mobile devices including a facial or iris scan as a way to log in to a PC, said Skaugen.