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What the hell does "edge" even mean here? Edge of what?

• gruez 4y ago
  >Intel said the new SoCs are aimed at a broad range of industries, including point-of-sale kit in the retail, banking, and hospitality sectors, industrial PCs and controllers for the manufacturing industry, plus healthcare. ®
  • Const-me 4y ago
    I wonder why doesn't that stuff run some ARM-based Linux? Do they actually need a CPU as fast as that Adler Lake? I have made embedded software for industrial equipment with mid-range ARM SoCs, things went rather well. I would probably do it again should I want to make kiosk software or similar.
• mecsred 4y ago
  It's a pretty fluid term depending on who you're talking to, and it's mostly a buzzword in marketing. Most people I know use it as "edge of the network", as in something likely running off solar and cellular out on site with a limited uplink. The general idea behind the term being you move computing resources out to distributed systems and read back processed information rather than sending all the raw data to a central service first.
  • MrWiffles 4y ago
    Thank you! This was useful.