Intel has unveiled the Intel Retail Sensor Platform, which is aimed at retailers looking to create new technologically driven shopping experiences. The new platform is the first vertical solution built on Intel’s IoT Platform, which includes sensors, gateways, and the cloud management and analytics that tie the offering together. The impetus behind Intel’s expansion from its PC and server business is largely found in its failure to break into mobile. The transition from computers into smartphone and tablet silicon (both application processors as well as the radio modules that would connect them to the internet) was meant to shore up the portfolio in the face of dwindling PC sales – but Intel famously failed in its mobile endeavours. But the…