You forgot the most important parts: they also have a dedicated pattern recognition engine, and they claim everything is very low power.
Let's wait and see if it's true. I remember their Galileo chip was indeed low-power.
Let's wait and see if it's true. I remember their Galileo chip was indeed low-power.
Also, the competing chips are fast enough and low-power enough that they essentially are dedicated pattern recognition engines with the right firmware. If you look at for instance Apple's M8 motion processor, that's just a Cortex-M3 chip, and not even a particularly power-efficient one by modern standards. I wouldn't even be surprised to find that Intel's just embedding a competing microcontroller core as their pattern recognition engine; it's how everyone else does it.