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Embedded World 2026 put AI inference at every price point. TI ships a sub-$1 NPU MCU, MediaTek brings 3nm and 50 TOPS to IoT, and AMD targets 80 TOPS with a 10-year industrial lifecycle. Renesas launched a cloud platform covering MCU design through OTA fleet management. Quectel is shipping pre-audited CRA compliance documentation with its cellular modules. The baseline for a finished connected product now includes certified security, AI-assisted tooling, and long-lifecycle si

Remote IoT is quietly becoming the default for “boring” infrastructure - meters, pumps, pallets, trucks. This Smart Tangibles News Digest covers how remote monitoring and asset tracking are turning construction sites and utilities into sensor networks, why the asset tracking market is set to double by 2032, Latin America’s looming smart metering boom, Telefónica’s NB-IoT water rollout in Cádiz, and how AIoT is shifting toward decentralized, agentic edge systems.