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Lots of misunderstanding in this comments section. Movidius makes low power neural network processors for mobile application. The Myriad V1 is used in google t

Lots of misunderstanding in this comments section. Movidius makes low power neural network processors for mobile application. The Myriad V1 is used in google tango and the V2 (what the USB stick has) is used in the new DJI Phantom 4. http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/16/11242578/movidius-myriad-2-chip-computer-vision-dji-phantom-4 http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/16/11242578/movidius-myriad-2... The Myriad chips are interesting because they combine MIPI camera interface lanes on the same chip as a general purpose NN/CV processor and an SDK suite of hardware accelerated computer vision functions (edge detection, Guassian blur, etc). here's the white paper for the chip: http://uploads.movidius.com/1441734401-Myriad-2-product-brief.pdf http://uploads.movidius.com/1441734401-Myriad-2-product-brie... Because programming these chips essentially requires having the hardware, and because the hardware was very hard to come by, programming these chips was mostly limited to Google, DJI, and other big partners. With this release the everyday developer has access to these vision processing chips, and the barrier to development entry is considerably lower. This is not meant to replace your titan X gpu.

revelation 11y ago
This is their own press release. What does that kind of hardware for CV primitives have to do with deep learning? (Also, of course, this stick doesn't seem to have any kind of connectivity besides the USB to the host computer. How do I connect my camera? Having to shuffle the data from a camera to the stick passing the host computer somewhat defeats the point.)
- krasin 11y ago
  >What does that kind of hardware for CV primitives have to do with deep learning? They have hardware convolutions on 12 SHAVE cores (kind of a DSP core). It means that the chip can run some useful subset of convolutional neural networks very fast and energy efficient. They also have 2 general purpose SPARC cores, which allows you to have a "normal" program running there. Not sure, how locked the USB stick going to be, and if running your custom program would be an option. >How do I connect my camera? The chip itself has a couple of MIPI lanes. The USB stick likely does not expose that. And I agree, that's suboptimal.
- randyrand 11y ago
  It doesn't defeat the point. You can still do development on it just fine.

revelation 11y ago

This is their own press release. What does that kind of hardware for CV primitives have to do with deep learning? (Also, of course, this stick doesn't seem to have any kind of connectivity besides the USB to the host computer. How do I connect my camera? Having to shuffle the data from a camera to the stick passing the host computer somewhat defeats the point.)

krasin 11y ago
>What does that kind of hardware for CV primitives have to do with deep learning? They have hardware convolutions on 12 SHAVE cores (kind of a DSP core). It means that the chip can run some useful subset of convolutional neural networks very fast and energy efficient. They also have 2 general purpose SPARC cores, which allows you to have a "normal" program running there. Not sure, how locked the USB stick going to be, and if running your custom program would be an option. >How do I connect my camera? The chip itself has a couple of MIPI lanes. The USB stick likely does not expose that. And I agree, that's suboptimal.
randyrand 11y ago
It doesn't defeat the point. You can still do development on it just fine.