Cedexis, specialized in accelerating the web access was again sold

The big french revelation that made web access easier to big corporations was just bought by the American software publisher Citrix.

The cloud, online services, websites, Netflix and Amazon, they all have one thing in common. They depend on connections that route the data between the user and the business site. If the consumer has to wait too long, he may zap and leave the site. The speed in the web access has become crucial to streamline online services, an increasingly difficult task to fulfill as the explosion of the amount of data circulating on the internet causes traffic jams. Smelling the windfall, many companies have rushed into the niche of optimizing the Internet and offer their miracle solutions to boost network performance.

Among them, Cedexis, a startup founded in 2010 by Julien Coulon. Quietly, the small business has garnered customers, like Facebook, Linkedin, Microsoft, Mozilla, Bloomberg, Samsung and Lenovo. "We have a team of 75 professionals,"says Julien Coulon,"in France, in the United States, Great Britain, Switzerland, Israel, and Singapore."We collect data from more than one billion people a day.". This little technological nugget could have become a unicorn. Missed. It has just been bought by Citrix, a US software company that made $ 2.82 billion in revenue in 2017.

When your box grows, it's not your box anymore

Such a buyout is not surprising. While the problem of accelerating the internet is crucial for all merchant sites, it has become a lifeline for all companies selling online services, especially those that offer cloud-based applications like software as a service (SaaS). In this case, the software is installed in a remote server and the user pays at the time of use. It is also necessary that the use is at least as fast and fluid as that of a software installed on the hard disk.

Internet accelerators such as Cedexis claim to be able to streamline traffic. For telecom operators, these companies are in reality parasites who are content to plunder the most profitable services without ever installing any cable. However, these techniques that accelerate the network have become indispensable.

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Windows 10 CloudBooks: Microsoft's strategy against Chromebooks

The minimum specifications for devices running Windows 10 Cloud to compete with Chromebooks in the education market have just been made public.

Windows Central has found a Microsoft Confidential document that describes the recommended minimum specifications for Windows 10 CloudBooks.

Windows 10 CloudBooks do not lie about their name: these devices were designed to compete with Chromebooks and embed the still unofficial cloud edition of Windows 10. Windows 10 Cloud and some compatible devices would however be presented at an event on 2 May in New York.

Not much to do with the cloud

Windows 10 Cloud, as far as we know it at the moment, has little to do with the cloud. This is a low-end version of Windows 10 designed to run only the applications contained in the Windows 10 Store. This is an evolution of Windows RT and Windows 7 Starter Edition. The update of Windows 10 Cloud to Windows 10 Professional will be possible say some testers.

The recommended minimum specifications of Windows 10 CloudBook published by Windows Central indicate that the first devices running Windows 10 Cloud should have at least Celeron Quad-core; 4 GB of RAM; 32 GB of storage (or 64 GB for 64-bit versions); A battery of more than 40 WHr; Fast eMMC or Solid State Drive (SSD) for storage. The pen and the touch pad are optional.

The disclosed document states that these devices will run the Windows 10 Cloud Creators Update (Redstone 2) and will not necessarily have to wait for Redstone 3, which will be released in September. This makes sense given that the school market is preparing for the re-entry from September to early summer. There is no mention of ARM-based CloudBooks in the document, but it is certain that Windows 10 Cloud will work on Intel-based and ARM-based devices.

Microsoft and its partners are directly targeting Chromebooks with these devices equipped with Windows 10 CloudBook explains the document. The lifetime of each battery cycle of these devices must be more than 10 hours, which in term of marketing translates to "all day".

I'm curious as to whether Microsoft will go to hardware with CloudBook, not necessarily with a Surface device, but with a high-end machine similar to the Chromebook Pixel.

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HTML5: DRM integration and Netflix

In April, the W3C will have to decide once and for all on the standardization plan for Encrypted Media Extension (EME). This technology, loudly demanded by Netflix et al., Is described by its opponents as a DRM within traditionally open web standards.

EME: behind this term a little obscure hides a conflict deemed fundamental by the defenders of the web and free software. The controversy is not new: the Encrypted Media Extensions is a technology similar to a DRM, a tool to control the diffusion of films or works protected by copyright. With the emergence of a major player in the field of streaming (Netflix, of course, you are thinking), the pressure has gradually strengthened at W3C so that the web standards organization introduces a mechanism of this type within the standard HTML5.

W3C Steeplebreaks

The debate has been raging since 2013, but the task force assigned to this task at the W3C must now reach a final decision. The last proposal of the working group was published on 16 March. This is the result of the work of the group dedicated to EME, which obviously includes Netflix, but also other players such as Microsoft and Google.


This proposal is now in the hands of the consortium's advisory committee, which has until April 13 to make its decision. The committee can choose to accept the proposal and make it a new web standard, or may ask the working group to review its copy.

The issue of the Encrypted Media Extension has been raging for several years within the W3C, with on the one hand fierce opponents of this idea and on the other side of the defenders of the principle. The argument often put forward by opponents of this system is that EMEs introduce proprietary code into web standards, which until then were entirely free.


This solution is likely to cause many edge effects and in particular raises the question of the ability of independent security researchers to audit the code of this technology in search of fault. On the other side, the defenders of the EME explain that this technology is necessary to allow the development of service of video in streaming without questioning the copyright.

It is interesting to note that browsers did not wait for the W3C decision to implement the EME: Chrome was one of the first to propose it, and Firefox, in spite of its initial opposition to the project, eventually ranked Competition and also introduce EME technology. In this context, it is difficult to hope that the opponents of standardization of the EMEs can succeed.

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Unusual: Lactel embarks on virtual reality

What if we were actually cooking virtual reality? Much more funny, much more interactive, much less expensive and just as good? At the Laval Virtual trade show, three companies joined forces to create the VR application called "Mes crêpes Lactel". Indeed, Eon Reality, Atlantic Health (two companies Mayennaise) and Lactel wish to democratize the art of cooking and show you how one can make crêpes in virtual reality. Amusing, is not it?

Intended for all curious people to immerse themselves in a virtual environment, the playful and pedagogical interface was designed to facilitate the user's journey, step by step, from the search for the ingredients to the disposition of a garnish. Participants are thus led to prepare pancakes in a virtual kitchen: a recipe much appreciated by the French and in which milk is a major ingredient.
A marketing experience before anything else to make more fun an activity that might seem common, even banal. The application is indeed amusing and has made it possible to attract a wider audience to the stand of Lactel during the 19th edition of the virtual show Laval, dedicated to virtual reality.
La Réalité Virtuelle offers opportunities and Lactel saw this as a chance to opt for an innovative way of communication for an industry that is not really hype and that sometimes has trouble when it comes to marketing and communication. A first step towards the RV for this industrial giant therefore. One could imagine other ramifications of this technology.
For example it might be possible to visit the dairy farms, or even to milk a cow! Or one could also visit the factories of Lactel, observe chemical molecules to see how the processes of heating in Utlra High Temperature happens. These are just examples that we would like to see happen in the virtual reality market of course!

RV marketing is an inexpensive process that reaches an audience that would not initially be interested in the product but rather a virtual reality experience. A Consumer Approach Facilitated ... and Increasing Sales? RV is still a young technology and there is a lack of data on whether these operations are profitable. What is known however is that more and more companies are choosing to adopt it.

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Ada: an AI-powered doctor app with telemedicine service

London and Ada health technology startup based in Berlin (ADA), the official government meeting today to visit Great Britain. By doing so, the number of start-ups Europe, trying to sell something with artificial intelligence of "doctor".

The company's mobile products of their claims as a "companion health and telemedicine personal applications", through the interface conversation, to eliminate the symptoms that you have, is to provide information about why you can. If necessary, follow-up consultations remotely by text from a real doctor.

2 of Ada founder, Daniel Nathrath and doctor Keller Novorol, it is explained that during the course of six years, in fact, a better medical decisions doctors are helping me to get started. There is more consumers friendly end of the reception, but intelligent backend database and access is provided to the consumer.

In my simple test program, I plug in the pain and the baby. After digging a very broad question, but it seems a lot of questions to answer before I offer three conditions Ada related software, and consulting and can be successfully treated at home.

The founders of the company, in order to enable decisions based on information about the patient's health, one of the main advantages of artificial intelligence-led medical applications, such as Ada is recognized. In addition to an attitude more prosaic, to ensure that a visit to the doctor when we need, in general, without the need for additional resources from a doctor larger human, medical active you can make it act .

In other words, add your own AI triage performance of your power, in the same way as 2 Babylon competitors that are helping to improve medical care DeepMind founder of scale using this technology.

"Ada has for many years trained using a real-world cases, features and engine advanced artificial intelligence (AI), thousands of signs, symptoms, a wide range of medical knowledge that this finding covers.

"In all of the assessment, medical history, symptoms, risk factors, by considering all of the information from the patient. Learning tools and a few closed feedback loop, Ada location Ada earlier than everyone else, this growing awareness has continued .

So, Ada does not claim to replace as soon as her doctor. As many AI has been used in a variety of industries, medical care, of course, is designed to expand the role of man.

This will occur very tangible in two ways: If you need a real doctor for further advice, serve as a practice of prior consulting press cleaning, or simply create a paper trail of digital pre-consultation A place that will help.

He also tells the idea of ​​AI Ada, it is taught by real doctors, a basic shared pool of expertise. You started doctor as a tool, eventually to avoid misdiagnosis.

How he compared to Babylon and asked me, he heard loudly, refused to say the name of the company a little laugh, CEO Nathrath said unlike competitors, AI is relief I mentioned. Where they said their doctors "and others started skype presentation: for many years with AI, AI Ada 6 making now just add remote counseling.


Meanwhile, the launch is a very mysterious matter as it provides funds. Apart from the financial support of the European Union (EU), health ada is said to be backed up by anonymous individuals.

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The explosive growth of open-source software

Many of the hottest new technology company today is focused on open source technology. As a result, many of the leading financial services company's leading retail business has developed a business around the new community-based technology that represents a radical change in IT practices of the past.

However, if corporate clients and investors, will be able to evaluate how these new open source product? Any project (Strangely, Anabilities, Vagrant, Gradle) Can you know by how much a is generating the majority of traction customers? What is the best thing that in software developers, what is the potential to gain market share?

These questions are the open-source majority of companies are still private, because there is no need to disclose key users and financial indicators, it is difficult to answer. Open source giant Cloudera recently announced plans to publicly raise the market of interest for open source technology.

So to create a new detailed index to track the popular open source software projects, we decided to get some insight into the new companies that use these technologies. It is the open source software index battery (BOSS index). This information is collected over several months, the information that has been published, we are presented here. As open source companies are using some of these projects are being published more and more, the index should be more relevant increases.

This index, and 40 open source project that has been collected from the first refining projects that are listed on the GitHub source code repository website, contains Datamation is an IT company publication to follow the open source project you . Top 25 is as follows. A complete list is located on our web site.

We, we focus on IT projects related to IT fields, such as IT operations. And data analysis, including the tools and databases for artificial intelligence and machine learning, including a project that focuses on the new trend of "container", "development" (DevOps) is quickly the software people is an auto environment - She will help develop in the.

THE BATTERY OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE INDEX
Rank	Project Name	Overall Project Rating	Category	Sample of Related Companies
1	Linux	100.00	IT Operations	Red Hat, Ubuntu
2	Git	31.10	DevOps	GitHub, GitLab
3	MySQL	25.23	Data & Analytics	Oracle
4	Node.js	22.75	DevOps	NodeSource, Rising Stack
5	Docker	22.61	DevOps	Docker
6	Hadoop	16.19	Data & Analytics	Cloudera, Hortonworks
7	Elasticsearch	15.72	Data & Analytics	Elastic
8	Spark	14.99	Data & Analytics	Databricks
9	MongoDB	14.68	Data & Analytics	MongoDB
10	Selenium	12.81	DevOps	Sauce Labs, BrowserStack
11	NPM	12.31	DevOps	NPM
12	Redis	11.61	Data & Analytics	Redis Labs
13	Tomcat	11.04	IT Operations	NA
14	Jenkins	10.47	DevOps	CloudBees
15	Vagrant	8.15	IT Operations	HashiCorp
16	Postgres	8.02	Data & Analytics	EnterpriseDB
17	Gradle	7.68	DevOps	Gradle
18	Nginx	7.57	IT Operations	Nginx
19	Ansible	7.42	IT Operations	Ansible
20	Kafka	7.22	Data & Analytics	Confluent
21	GitLab	6.42	DevOps	GitLab
22	Hbase	6.41	Data & Analytics	Cloudera, Hortonworks
23	Chef	6.37	IT Operations	Chef*
24	TensorFlow	5.97	Data & Analytics	Google
25	Cassandra	5.74	Data & Analytics	DataStax

The list contains a large enterprise production project, there are quite a few well-known names. Linux also includes what is to be the foundation of Red Hat. (Now part of Oracle) In 2008 Sun Microsystems qualified MySQL company name and bought $ 1 billion. We brought Cloudera and Hortonworks to Hadopu.

However, as selenium, whose name is well appreciated, it shows that many of the infrastructure of innovation in the open source field is unknown. However, in our study, even if you have a lot of users to open source projects, we found that we are not automatically converted to create a commercially viable business.

We rank the project based on the following four factors.
Public interests for Google's search activity measurement project
User's activities evaluated by the technical design discussion board, the overall design of the mention of stack overflow;
The impact on jobs is measured by the number of jobs to name each open source project posted on the job board. When
The impact of the open source community is monitored by measuring the effect of the project on GitHub. Specifically, keep track of the number of 'forks' or extensions built per project. The number of company's "stars" received GitHub. This shows its popularity. As of February 9, 2017, it is another popular index number "clock".

Inside the project there is a possibility that you are doing very well on certain criteria - probably, but searching away from Google's number may be the score of Sabupaku message - this is a trimming average for each project "Gymnastics issued the lowest level of athletes from each judge, similar to the average of the remaining gymnastics of the highest level and level. (In my competition, East Germans did not have a jury, but please be careful)


Still, there is always room for improvement. In this way some of the standards such as download metrics and some of the application of popularity criteria are difficult to measure clearly, but certainly will not capture all new and newly displayed tools. For scheduled updates in each quarter, you should be able to follow it as new leaders emerge. Thus, over time, love is our number and feedback from the community to improve the content. For more information on these indicators, please contact us for battery.com @ open source.

Here are some other key takeaways from our research.

Linux, Git, MySQL lead the pack
Although perhaps not surprisingly, we have an open source project to index leader, is Linux, which was first released in 1991, is one of the open source projects that are most widely adopted around the world. Red Hat is, Ubuntu and not only SUSE, including the company which is a company of the few open source companies that have been published, was marketed by the company.


Git who came in second place had an impact on GitHub and gitlab. Open source project that is widely used is to control changes between software developers, and function as a "version control system" to adjust the work.

In addition, the third largest in Listing 3, was MySQL is the first database technology developed in 1995. Currently MySQL, operates Google, Facebook, large-scale Web companies such as Twitter. However, unlike MySQL, it is a non-relational database, it is often appropriate to analyze the unstructured data that is discarded many companies nowadays, even some of the "NoSQL" database technology attention that deserve.

These NoSQL technologies, contains MongoDB. Ladies, Inc. (Redis Labs) ladies who were marketed in # 12 (Redis) Cassandra is contained in No.25, located behind the DataStax database company. ElasticSearch at No. 7 that Elastic, Inc. is marketed.

MongoDB has given new funding in the second half of 2015. The company has a value of approximately $ 1.5 billion, conflicting Oracle, IBM, and existing database players such as Microsoft. Overall, some of these NoSQL vendors, instead of converging to one of the giant system, you may have grown independently of one another. This refers to further fragmentation of a broader range of field data infrastructure, there is a possibility that lead to the creation of some of the powerful NoSQL players that could become future public enterprises.
Big Data will supply fuel for open source

Organization that today administers a huge amount of structured data and unstructured data generated by any one of the murmur of sensor-enabled Web security software factory is increasingly a new management and data storage solutions we are looking at. This trend is, for a dozen (15) or more of the 40 project is an open source technology that will help in the processing of database and data, it has been reflected in the index.


The above mentioned Hadoop is such a technology. However, the spark that were marketed by companies like Databricks are those of another, it was ranked eighth on our list.

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Elon Musk's Neuralink Aims To Plug Into Your Brain

Entrepreneur Elon Musk launched Neuralink Corp. to implant electrodes into human brains to enhance their computer interface, sources said.

Musk, 45, the South African-born founder and CEO of both electric carmaker Tesla Inc. and privately owned rocket company SpaceX, established the California-based company and is taking an active role in its funding and development, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing sources involved in the company's start.

Neuralink will pursue "neural lace" technology, in which small electrodes are implanted in the brain as cranial computers.

Building on simpler technology already in use to treat Parkinson's disease, the internal computers could be used at first to deal with brain disorders such as epilepsy and depression, a market the Wall Street Journal suggested is worth billions of dollars.

They could later be put to use as a "direct cortical interface," Musk said, or artificial intelligence within the brain, to enhance human function and expand human potential.

Musk has commented since August on progress being made in the field, and said in a Twitter message Monday that an update about his new company could be expected in a week.

"Difficult to dedicate the time, but existential risk is too high not to," he said.

Neuralink, identified in state filings as a "medical research" company, recently hired several scholars in the cognition field. The industry is growing; a startup called Kernel, a Neuralink competitor, already has 20 employees, Facebook Inc. seeks "brain-computer interface engineers" and the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has $60 million to spend on implantable neural interface technology.

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Apple Design, Supply Issues Might Delay This Year's iPhone Release

There's rising speculation that Apple might come out with its next iPhone later than expected this year due to unresolved design and supply issues. The company, which normally releases new flagship devices in September, is said to be exploring a variety of new features that could push back the launch date.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone, which Asymco analyst Horace Dediu earlier this year proclaimed "the most successful product of all time," having sold an expected total of 1.2 bllion units from 2007 through the first half of 2017.

The latest iPhone could arrive one or two months later than usual because of possible constraints on the supply of OLED screens and other materials, according to a report in Bloomberg today. It's also possible that at least one model of the new device will be called the "iPhone Edition," rather than the iPhone 8, the Japanese site Mac Otakara reported last month.

Expect 'Top-of-the-Line' Handset

Like its rival Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, which arrive on the market Friday, Apple's next iPhone could feature a curved-edge screen face that's nearly bezel free, various sources have reported. iPhone fans might also have to drop more cash than usual for Apple's newest phone, which is rumored to be priced in the $1,000 range.

Three new iPhone models could appear in Apple's lineup this fall, including "a new top-of-the-line handset with an overhauled look," according to Bloomberg. The article also noted that Apple is likely feeling added pressure to succeed with the new iPhone design in light of previous few models that didn't feature any big changes. The well-received Samsung Galaxy S8s could also up the ante for Apple, according to the article.

Two of the new iPhones planned for launch later this year will likely be updates of 2016's iPhone 7 (pictured above): an iPhone 7s and an iPhone 7s Plus, BGR reported today. BGR added that might be the reason Apple is considering a name other than "iPhone 8" for the third device, as that could make the iPhone 7s handsets appear out of date from the moment they arrive.

Could New iPhone Lose Touch ID?

Ongoing design issues surrounding the new iPhones are one reason Apple might be delaying this fall's launch. Like the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus hitting the market this week, Apple's update could relocate the iPhone's fingerprint sensor from the front screen to the back.

It's also possible the new iPhone could drop the Touch ID sensor altogether, according to a report yesterday by MacRumors. The publication cited comments made in a research note by Pacific Crest Securities Analyst Andy Hargreaves.

"We believe Apple continues to work on solving its optical fingerprint issues," Hargreaves stated. "If it's able to solve the problems in the next month or so, it would likely place volume orders at that point. This would likely lead to a delay of the OLED iPhone launch, but we would not expect it to meaningfully affect volume for the cycle. If it's not able to fix the problems in that time frame, Apple may be forced to eliminate fingerprint sensing from the OLED iPhone altogether."

Citing unnamed "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg today noted that Apple has ordered around 100 million OLED display screens for its new iPhones from Samsung because "other suppliers won't be ready to supply mass quantities until later."

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IBM Boosts Deep Learning Offerings with Anaconda Data Science Platform

Big Blue has announced that it is expanding its presence in the enterprise deep learning sector with the news that it is partnering with Continuum Analytics to offer the latter’s Anaconda platform for Open Data Science on IBM Cognitive Systems. Anaconda will be integrated with IBM’s PowerAI enterprise machine learning software package and distributed alongside it.

IBM said Anaconda will also integrate with the PowerAI software distribution for machine learning and deep learning so enterprises can take advantage of PowerAI performance and GPU (graphics processing unit) optimization for data intensive cognitive workloads.

Big Competition in Big Data

The agreement gives IBM another leg up in the fight to win business from data scientists and developers working on deep learning applications. Anaconda said it already has more than 16 million downloads. Offering the platform through IBM's Cognitive Systems unit will allow clients to quickly scale up the deep learning applications they develop using Anaconda.

The advent of big data has been a bonanza for IT providers aiming to provide enterprises and other organizations with the tools to identify patterns in large data sets to convert information to actionable intelligence. In particular, the demand for big data tools has driven research and development in deep learning, a subset of machine learning.

Deep learning makes it possible to process enormous datasets, sometimes with billions of discrete data points, to extract useful information and predictive models. "Deep learning is transforming the businesses of leading consumer Web and mobile application companies, and it is quickly being adopted by more traditional business enterprises as well," IBM said in a statement announcing its partnership with Continuum.

Simplifying Deep Learning App Deployment

IBM developed the PowerAI platform to encourage its enterprise clients to adopt open source machine and deep learning frameworks to build cognitive applications for their businesses. PowerAI reduces the complexity and risk involved in deploying those frameworks in an enterprise environment, while also customizing them for maximum performance, according to IBM.

The Anaconda platform, meanwhile, provides large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing capabilities to developers working on deep learning systems. The addition of Anaconda's capabilities should help simplify the management and deployment of deep learning applications.

Developers who had been working with open source components on the Anaconda platform will now also have access to PowerAI's deployment platform, and computing and graphics processing optimization provided by Nvidia. Nvidia provides both the GPU accelerators and the high-speed interface used by the PowerAI platform.

IBM has been pushing hard for the adoption of its Power Architecture technology ever since it opened the architecture up to other developers and launched the OpenPower Foundation in 2013 to collaborate with other companies on its design.

The group includes industry players, such as Google and Nvidia, and recently announced a new work group to help define frameworks for the development and deployment of machine learning solutions using OpenPower technology.

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Google Creates Science App for Kids and Educators

A new Android app from Google is aiming to turn kids’ smartphones into mobile data recorders to help them become more engaged in the scientific process. Called Science Journal, the app acts as a digital science notebook to help kids measure the world around them.

Kids can use the app to record data from sensors on their Android phones or through connected Arduino devices, take notes, observe, interpret, and make predictions, according to the company.

The app allows users to gather data collected through the sensors on their Android devices, such as the accelerometer and microphone, to measure aspects of the environment, such as light and sound. Users can graph data, record experiments, and organize questions and ideas. The app can also make use of external sensors that can be attached to a smartphone.

Making Science Fun

Google said it has teamed up with the Exploratorium, a science education advocacy group in San Francisco, to design and construct a number of different sensor and learning activity kits that can be used in conjunction with the Science Journal app.

The group has already created some science activities on Google’s makingscience.withgoogle.com Web site, such as demonstrating how to build a wind spinner and how to use the Android’s sensors to measure its rotation.

The kits include inexpensive sensors, microcontrollers, and craft supplies to augment the capabilities of the app. The kits will be available for purchase in the U.S. or they can be assembled by parents or children, according to Google.

Science and Education Initiatives

“We’re excited to nurture an open ecosystem where people everywhere can use Science Journal to create their own activities, integrate their own sensors and even build kits of their own,” the company wrote on its Google For Education blog. “We know that hands-on projects increase engagement, cultivate curiosity and spark a lifelong interest in learning.”

To support that goal, Google said it has already released the firmware code for the apps’ microcontroller on GitHub, and will be open-sourcing the app later this summer. In addition, the company is actively looking for hardware vendors, and educational partners to collaborate on future improvements to the app.

The app is part of Google’s Making & Science initiative, an effort by the company to encourage children to engage with science and engineering at a young age. The initiative has included other efforts such as Google Field Trip Days, when the company organizes field trips for students to their local science museums, and Google Science Fair, a global online science and engineering competition for children and teams ages 13 to 18 that awards up to $50,000 in scholarship money for winners.

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Intel To Buy Assisted Driving Tech Firm Mobileye for $15.3 Billion

Tech giant Intel today unveiled a $15.3 billion proposal to acquire Mobileye, an Israel-based firm whose driver-assistance technology is already used in millions of vehicles. The two companies, along with BMW Group, have been partners since last year in a joint project to begin producing self-driving cars by 2021.

Founded in 1999, Mobileye develops software and EyeQ computer chips that use machine vision and artificial intelligence for vehicle-based advanced driver assist systems. The company already works with more than two dozen automaker partners around the world.

By adding Mobileye's technology and workforce to its own organization, Intel said it aims to speed up innovation and position itself as a leader in the fast-developing market for autonomous cars. That market, including systems, data and services, could be worth as much as $70 billion by 2030, according to Intel.

Building on Mobileye's Momentum

If approved by regulators, Intel's acquisition of Mobileye is expected to close sometime later this year. The new organization created by the combination of Mobileye and Intel's Automated Driving Group would be based in Israel and led by Amnon Shashua, Mobileye's co-founder, chairman and CTO.

Shashua is also chairman of the computer science department at Hebrew University, where the Mobileye technology was developed. Mobileye went public in 2014 in the largest-ever Israeli initial public offering. The proposed Intel deal is also reportedly the Israeli tech industry's highest-value acquisition to date.

"We are always happy to see technology started at Hebrew University become such a huge success," said Yaacov Michlin, CEO of Yissum, which is the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "This is a record deal not only for Yissum and Mobileye, but for Israel."

Under the deal, Intel will provide the foundational technologies for autonomous driving, including plotting the car’s path and making real-time driving decision, while Mobileye will bring automotive-grade computer vision and strong momentum with automakers and suppliers, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in a statement. "Together, we can accelerate the future of autonomous driving with improved performance in a cloud-to-car solution at a lower cost for automakers," he said.

Ziv Aviram, Mobileye's co-founder, president and CEO, added, "By pooling together our infrastructure and resources, we can enhance and accelerate our combined know-how in the areas of mapping, virtual driving, simulators, development tool chains, hardware, data centers and high-performance computing platforms."

Tech Inspired by How Humans See

Mobileye's technology is already being used by 27 automakers in 313 different models and over 15 million vehicles, according to the company. Mobile's driver assistance systems are based on a single-lensed (mono) camera approach modeled on how humans see.

"The Mobileye mono-camera was inspired by human vision, which only uses both eyes to obtain depth perception for very short distances," Shashua said on the company's About page. "All depth-perception cues for farther distances -- such as perspective, shading, texture, and motion cues, that the human visual system uses in order to understand the visual world -- are interpreted by a single eye. Therefore, Mobileye understood that a single-lens camera could be the primary sensor to enable autonomous driving."

Intel sees autonomous driving as a fast-developing market that could mean new opportunities for its existing data-processing capabilities and technologies.

"Highly autonomous cars and everything they connect to will require powerful and reliable electronic brains to make them smart enough to navigate traffic and avoid accidents," Intel's Krzanich said in July in a statement announcing the company's partnership with Mobileye and BMW Group. "We bring a broad set of in-vehicle and cloud computing, connectivity, safety and security, and machine-learning assets to this collaboration enabling a truly end-to-end solution."

At the CES 2017 in Las Vegas this January, Intel, Mobileye and BMW Group revealed plans to deploy a fleet of around 40 autonomous test vehicles on the roads by the second half of this year.

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