Intel's Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick is the world’s first USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained AI accelerator that delivers dedicated deep neural network processing capabilities to a wide range of host device.
Intel has announced the Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick, the world’s first USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that delivers dedicated deep neural network processing capabilities to a wide range of host devices. The product seems to be the first release of a new system following the company's acquisition of Naveen Rao's Nervana Systems a year ago.
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Designed for product developers, researchers and makers, the Movidius Neural Compute Stick aims to reduce obstacles to developing, tuning and deploying AI applications by delivering dedicated high-performance deep-neural network processing in a compact form factor.The Neural Compute Stick (NCS) is a tiny fanless deep learning device that is powered by the same low power high performance Movidius™ Vision Processing Unit (VPU) that can be found in millions of smart security cameras, gesture controlled drones, industrial machine vision equipment, and more.
With more software developers adopting machine learning approaches to build innovative applications and solutions, Intel's new USB3-AI system looks like an interesting addition. The company is hoping to help developers train artificial neural networks for uses in artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and autonomous driving.
Modeled on the human brain, neural networks are far better than other systems at sorting through huge amounts of data and identifying patterns.
“The Myriad 2 VPU housed inside the Movidius Neural Compute Stick provides powerful, yet efficient performance – more than 100 gigaflops of performance within a 1W power envelope – to run real-time deep neural networks directly from the device,” said Remi El-Ouazzane, vice president and general manager of Movidius, an Intel company. “This enables a wide range of AI applications to be deployed offline.”
Priced at only $79 USD, this device could cause a major stir, and make artificial intelligence more accessible.
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