Hardware Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine SDK, based on its Zeroth Machine Intelligence Platform, running on it Snapdragon 820 SoCs, aimed at developers interested in deep learning. FreeWave has unveiled a new sensor-to-sensor radio. The ZumLink claims a 4Mbps link rate in the 900MHz ISM band, with support for third-party apps. Semtech has announced a dual-mode chip for smart grid developers, which combines PLC with LoRa. The EV8600 SoC is looking to provide 100% connectivity, with LoRa fallback. Software A study has found that open source software is used by 91% of IoT developers in at least one area of their software stack, according to VisionMobile, with open source hardware used by 77% of developers too. Some…