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akavel on Sept 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel acquires Movidius

For those like me, who don't have the slightest idea what is Movidius: based on http://www.movidius.com/technology and my lay-programmer reading of it, it seems they've designed some kind of CPU/chip specialized for "vision" processing (and/or neural networks).

dharma1 on Sept 6, 2016 [–]

They do embedded machine learning chips (mostly for vision) - their Myriad chip is in Google Tango and the Phantom 4 drone

cma on Sept 6, 2016 | [–]

Supposedly in the HTC Vive as well, but right now it seems to only do edge detection...

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