Announcements, releases and milestones from across the platform.

The nRF9151 runs LTE-M, NB-IoT and satellite NB-NTN from a single part, collapsing what used to be separate designs for terrestrial and off-grid coverage.

Iridium NTN Direct has started on-air trials ahead of a 2026 beta, aiming at a global standards-based NB-IoT and direct-to-device non-terrestrial network.

OEMs are moving from pilots to broad portfolio refreshes marketed as edge AI-enabled, with silicon from MediaTek, Qualcomm and NXP putting inference into sensors without wrecking battery life.

IKEA is growing the Thread installed base with over twenty new products, joining Aqara, Bosch, Philips Hue, Yale and others bringing Matter devices to market this year.

Infineon is extending its automotive AURIX line with RISC-V parts, placing the open architecture alongside its established TriCore and Arm-based portfolio.

Chipmakers demonstrated edge AI hardware moving inference directly onto camera chips, with Ambarella extending from vision into the broader industrial edge market.

US carriers are rolling out RedCap through 2026, starting in urban and suburban markets, targeting devices that need more than LTE-M but not full 5G.

Samsung's 62.x hub firmware beta updates SmartThings to Matter 1.6 and reworks Thread network management, one of the first major platform moves to the newer specification.

The August release brings native handling of Matter doorbell press events alongside an updated Matter Server, cleaner URLs and more flexible entity naming for new installations.

The German startup reached first silicon on Samsung Foundry's 8nm process, with a design that runs Linux and an RTOS at once while handling radar, audio and edge inference on the same core.

From 11 September 2026, manufacturers shipping connected products into the EU must report actively exploited vulnerabilities to ENISA within 24 hours, with penalties reaching 15 million euros.

From January 2026 Thread 1.4 is mandatory for new border-router certification, and credential sharing finally lets devices from different vendors join one mesh instead of separate islands.
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