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From last week: “Chipmakers can’t afford to wait on the sidelines, hoping their standard fare gets picked up and fits in with one of these [#IoT] teams.” This week, it’s ARM, Freescale, and Silicon Labs joining with Google and others on Thread. Yet another consortium? A lot more to this story.

You read that right, this one is Google. First we have to dig back through a bit of history to remember the push Google made in 2011 touting “the connected lightbulb”. They had put up a concept called Android@Home, and the protocol inside those demonstrations was 6LoWPAN.

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