MCCI member company Intel, announced the first product developed by its ASIC team in Leixlip Ireland. The Galileo board, which contains the Quark SoC x1000 chip, has taken three years to develop. The Quark SoC is the first product from the Intel Quark family of low-power, small-core products, a technology that is expected to push Intel into areas seen as rapid growth, such as wearable computing and connected devices in the ‘Internet of Things’