Intel has made a wide range of moves to establish its x86 architecture in the nascent IoT, and try to wrong-foot ARM in what looks, on paper, to be the low power expert’s natural home. But the battle will be a tough one, with both sides trying to leverage their established strengths (Intel’s platform control and huge scale, ARM’s low power consumption and broad base of devices) – but in reality, knowing the rules are different from those of their usual markets. Two months ago, ARM took the bold step of announcing an ‘operating system’, mbed OS – in reality a cloud-based developer platform tying together sensors and devices. Now Intel has launched its own reference platform, to unify the…