Samsung and Intel compete with Microsoft and Qualcomm over internet of things

Samsung and Intel, together with other companies, will try to create a standard for connecting devices with an internet connection. Qualcomm and Microsoft have been doing the same thing for some time now. Whoever wins this battle can earn money from the standard.

This standard should make it possible for devices with an internet connection to easily find and connect to each other, the companies write in a joint statement. That is why they are organizing themselves in the Open Interconnect Consortium. Any company is welcome to join.

The OIC is not the only partnership of companies that organize themselves to create a standard. Qualcomm and Microsoft, among others, are behind the self-established AllSeen, which aims at about the same thing.

Companies would like to standardize their own technology so that they can get products with the new standard on the market faster in the beginning and later receive license fees from competitors who want to use the standard, because the founders of the consortium have patented parts of the system.

The Internet of Things is not the only battleground of large companies looking to make different technologies the standard. The same has happened in recent years with wireless charging, for example, where several standards are still competing with each other.