New Product: Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick
Abe Michelen | August 01, 2017Intel® just announced the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick (NCS). This is a fanless deep learning device that is used to learn artificial intelligence (AI). The USB 3.0 drive is powered by a low-power MovidiusTM Visual Processing Unit (VPU), a device driving millions of smart cameras, industrial vision machines and intelligent drones. The device can translate trained neural networks in a PC to an app embedded in the Movidius stick. The neural networks include the Caffee, the deep learning framework developed by Berkeley AI Research (BAIR).
As specified in the announcement, these are the main features and applications for the stick:
Features
- Supports convolutional neural network (CNN) profiling, prototyping and tuning workflow
- Real-time on device inference—Cloud connectivity not required
- Features the Movidius™ Vision Processing Unit (VPU) with energy-efficient CNN processing
- All data and power provided over a single USB type A port
- Run multiple devices on the same platform to scale performance
Applications
- Smart home and consumer robotics
- Surveillance and security
- Retail
- Healthcare
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