Intel drops Arduino 101 creator board and Curie module

Intel will quit making its Curie chip for wearables and its Arduino 101 creator board.

Two years subsequent to propelling the Curie-fueled Arduino 101 creator board, Intel is throwing in the towel on the equipment. 

The chip-producer has declared the finish of-life for its Curie Module, which propelled in 2015, and was incorporated into the $30 Arduino 101 to wind up noticeably an Intel Quark-based other option to the more typical ARM based Arduino sheets. 

With the finish of Curie, the Arduino 101 will likewise without further ado be expelled from the market, however Intel claims it is "effectively working with elective makers" to keep providing the Arduino 101. 

Intel has as of late ventured once more from various shopper items that it was talking up in 2014 with an eye on wearables and customer IoT. 

In June Intel declared the end for Galileo, Joule, and Edison figure modules, yet didn't specify Curie, which controlled wearables from Oakley and Tag Heuer. 

A week ago CNBC revealed Intel had cut out 80 percent of its Basis smartwatch and wellness tracker gathering. Intel's R&D unit, the New Technologies Group, had dropped wearables to concentrate on increased reality, as per the report. 

Murdering Curie and the Arduino 101 viably closes Intel's creator advertise investigation, unless it resuscitates the producer board with another maker. 

Curie will be accessible until September 15 and it will quit taking requests for the Arduino 101 on September 17. 

"After September 15, 2017, Intel will make its online assets accessible for survey just and keep up accessibility to the Intel Curie people group until June 15, 2020. Records authorized under open source licenses will keep on being for the most part accessible in double and source code on GitHub," Intel notes on its designer discussion.