The boom of drones has been fermenting for two or three years. Intel entered the drone industry for more than a year. This time it finally made its own drone. Last night Intel Developer Forum, IDF), Intel focused on the launch of a new drone hardware product Aero Ready to Fly drone for developers (hereinafter referred to as "Aero drone").
The Aero drone is an open source hardware product. The main target audience is a number of software developers, not customers with drones that have a good amateur or demand for commercial drones. From the demonstration on IDF, we can see that this Aero drone is an assembled product. According to reports, it is equipped with the new Aero Computing Platform & Linux operating system and adopts Intel’s proud RealSense. The camera also comes preloaded with the software development package of the start-up company AirMap. The display of the entire set of casings does give some drone developers some enthusiasm. This is also the result of Intel's accumulation of large amounts of capital and technology.
Aero Drone Kit
Intel's drone roadIntel, who missed the smart phone trend, has been constantly looking for new opportunities. After laying out the Internet of Things and the Pocket PC, Intel turned its sights to the drone industry that was booming at the time. In August last year, Intel tossed 60 million U.S. dollars and invested in the Shanghai UAV vendor Yune Yuneec. This drone company, which had previously had a relatively low exposure in the media, immediately filled the headlines of major technology. Then, Yuneec showed up at the Las Vegas CES show in January with the drone "Hyphoon H" powered by Intel's Real Sense Tech (real-time sensing technology), and made a near-perfect "barrier performance" ( Everyone can search for the video at the time). However, Intel's first bright sword did not allow the industry to buy it, but it was met with skepticism.
According to public reports at the time, many companies including the domestic drone giant Djijiang spoke, saying that it was "a well-arranged show field, so that everyone thought that they have mastered advanced technology," these industry insiders said This time, Intel demonstrated the drone obstacle avoidance and tracking technology they called "black technology". In fact, it used the optical motion capture system OptiTrack to set up expensive cameras in a special environment set up indoors. With the sensor ball on the body of the drone to provide auxiliary positioning for the aircraft.
“The human head and the drones are optical marks. The entire process is controlled by optical tracking and follow-up. The drone can also successfully escape a fallen tree branch. I guess this is not a real-world technical judgment.â€
This was what an industry insider commented at the time.
Then Intel officials responded to the matter and said, "This is indeed Intel's real sense technology." In addition to this, there is not much appraisal of this matter, and this matter has come to an end.
Yuneec Typhoon H
However, this demonstration of Typhoon H was not the first time that Intel had connected with drones at the conference.
At CES 2015, German drone manufacturer Ascending Technologies (abbreviation: AscTec) announced that it has independently developed an autopilot system that uses Intel’s latest RealSense 3D camera, which claims to recognize and bypass obstacles, and is also At the show, a demonstration of how the AscTec Firefly drone bypassed the obstacles and played a video of the drone through the forest.
Previously, there have been reports that Intel appreciates AscTec's technology and has invited all AscTec employees to work for Intel. However, shortly after this, just after New Year's Day this year, Intel bought AscTec, which is worth a It is said that the company is a four-axis unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturer that was once associated with DJI, Parrot, and 3D Robotics. Since 2002, AscTec began to develop unmanned aerial vehicles. The X-UFO series drones are the earliest. One of toy quadcopters. This undoubtedly enriched Intel's drone business.
AscTec drone
Open source drone attemptsAlthough it is constantly referring to drones, Intel's ultimate goal is not to be a "successful consumer-grade drone maker," but to focus more on the promotion of chips and platforms. After investing in and acquiring two drone manufacturers, Intel finally started its own drones.
At the information technology summit in Shenzhen in April of this year, Intel released a new aerospace development kit. At that time, the official stated that it was possible to use this aerospace development kit to quickly build a drone. According to public information at that time, this aviation kit was Having an Atom7 processor and running on a Linux system, the official did not give the details of the kit and the price of the kit. However, judging from this Aero aerial drone, its own Atom quad-core processor and open source Yocto Linux operating system are in line with the previous suite, perhaps the kit is the predecessor of Aero drone.
Intel drone business direction In addition to Yuneec and AscTec, intel also invested in some other drone manufacturers, peripheral manufacturers (such as Airwave and Precisionhawk) in order to tap drone opportunities, and is also actively developing various drone technologies and solutions. . At the beginning of this year, Intel also cooperated with AT&T in the US to develop UAVs to communicate using 4G networks. In the field of drones, Intel can use all the stops.
In the unmanned aerial vehicle, which has already become popular, other chip makers such as Nvidia, Ambarella , and Qualcomm have been competing for market share in drones, but the ways of scramble are not the same, such as Ambarella. Manufacture microprocessor chips for some drone manufacturers, and Qualcomm aims to promote their Snapdragon Flight drone platforms. Therefore, both domestic and international drone markets, the competition of various chip manufacturers for the drone industry Still very intense.
It is not easy to say what kind of way Intel will eventually chase the way Intel competes with its peers. However, some clues can be seen from Intel's current actions. Intel will focus on the provision of drones, especially the ones it has been promoting. RealSense technology, this time launching Aero drone is trying to join a large number of software developers and researchers to join, and accelerate Intel drones to promote. However, this is only a beginning. In the future, whether Intel can make achievements in the absence of people will depend on its own technology and business strategy as well as the development status of drones throughout the industry.
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For the follow-up content of the Intel IDF16 Developer Conference, please pay attention to the report sent back from San Francisco by the reporter Lei Fengwang (search for "Lei Feng Net" public number) .
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