Intel Pulls the Covers Off a New Movidius VPU

guest · Nov 13, 2019

Intel Pulls the Covers Off a New Movidius VPU
“Better-than-GPU performance at a fraction of the cost”
November 13, 2019
https://www.cbronline.com/news/intel-movidius-vpu

Intel has pulled the curtain back on its latest Movidius VPU (Vision Processing Unit)- a type of processor designed to accelerate machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks, particularly ones like image processing.

Dubbed “Keem Bay”, the hardware is the latest iteration of its Vision Processing Unit from subsidiary Movidius, which according to Intel’s early testing will offer quadruple the throughput of Nvidia’s TX2 SOC, at one-third less power.
The 72-millimeter chip features a new on-die memory architecture with 64-bit memory bandwidth, Intel said at its AI conference in San Francisco this week.

Its VPUs have featured in Google’s Clips camera, DJI’s Phantom 4 drone, and Tencent’s DeepGaze.

“With this next phase of AI, we’re reaching a breaking point in terms of computational hardware and memory. Purpose-built hardware like Intel Nervana NNPs and Movidius Myriad VPUs are necessary to continue the incredible progress in AI”, said Naveen Rao, Intel GM of the Intel Artificial Intelligence products group.
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