CEVA has unveiled a rather cool chip that aims to supply developers with silicon that can handle a plethora of IoT wireless standards, in a package that should cut costs by combining the DSP (digital signal processor) with the CPU. CEVA claims the design eliminates the need for a separate CPU core to handle the higher level stacks. The chip is called the CEVA-X1, and its inventor claims that it provides a unified platform for low-throughput cellular IoT standards – including LTE Cat M1, LTE NB-IoT, upcoming 5G specs, LoRa, Sigfox, and shorter range personal area networks (PAN) like Bluetooth, WiFi, ZigBee, and Thread. It also supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and Beidou, for GNSS apps. Described as a multi-mode processing…