Who are the manufacturers who drive the world of embedded systems today ? The market need is so stratified that no single company can satisfy the needs of the whole market. This has driven manufacturers to form alliances. One of the alliances is ETI (Embed The Internet) alliance, which consists of names (totalling seventeen in 1999, to be precise) most of which are familiar to the embedded systems engineer.  The names go like this..Philips Semiconductors, Analog Devices, Atmel, Microchip (PIC series), Infineon (formerly Siemens semiconductors), Motorola, National Semiconductor, Hitachi, AT&T Global Network Services (an AT&T Solutions company),  Centura, EDTN Network, Mitsubishi, Pervasive Software, SAP, Sybase, PHYTEC America and TASKING. The ETI alliance was founded by emWare (US), which develops device networking solutions for the embedded systems market.

emWare's EMIT (Embedded Micro Internetworking Technology) software is claimed to be the only embedded Internet solution small enough to fit into 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers, interestingly, without requiring an RTOS or TCP/IP stack at the device. Using less than 1K of  memory, EMIT software is a fast, inexpensive and easy-to-implement technology for all electronic device manufacturers. The standards-based user interface utilizes Java applets and graphics files to create dynamic and full-feature graphical images to the embedded device.