New mbed operating system tries to pave over chip rivalries to lure in IoT startups

ARM TechCon  ARM will today announce a new operating system called mbed OS: it seeks to smooth over all the differences between various competing system-on-chips so that high-level applications can talk to sensors and other gizmos whether they’re using silicon from Atmel, Marvell, ST, Freescale, NXP, and so on.…