Intel's IoT effort seems very strange to me. You can get Rpi or similar board for $5-25, while and Edison or Currie is a lot more expensive. I know dev boards i

Intel's IoT effort seems very strange to me. You can get Rpi or similar board for $5-25, while and Edison or Currie is a lot more expensive. I know dev boards is not where they want to make their money .. but surely the chips cannot price compare with the ARM SoCs on the cheaper boards. Fine .. you can run Windows on your embedded device with these things (Windows IoT Core ... but that also works on cheaper boards like RPi). Do they have a path to success in IoT or is it just like step 2 for the underpants gnomes? Btw .. I feel the same way wrt Cisco and IoT. Perhaps the only large company that gets IoT IMHO is Amazon. Intel's acquisition of Altera seems promising but I don't know how big a market that is. High-end applications are certainly price-insensitive but there is a lot that can be done with older gen hardware and the Chinese are creeping up on that already.