Intel x86 Embedded, and the Arduino-101

This book follows Intel's excursions into the embedded space, with 8-, 16-, and 32-bit processors, derived from their general purpose computer line. Intel has traditionally dominated the desktop, laptop, and server market, but has increasingly addressed the embedded space, and the Internet of Things We take a look at Intel's licensing of the ARM architecture, and the contributions to that area. This leads to the latest development, an Arduino architecture that doesn't use a ARM chip, but rather an x86 chip. Of course, it executes a different set of opcodes, but the magic is, at the source level, it uses the same code as the Arm. We just need a new set of software tools. The Arduino-101 from Intel, an x-86 architecture internally, can run source code developed for the standard ARM-based Arduinos.