Intel Unveils Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit

[Guest]

Movidius, now an Intel company, announced the Myriad X VPU, which the company claims is the world's first Vision Processing Unit (VPU) with a dedicated Neural Compute Engine.

Intel Unveils Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit : Read more

 

[derekullo]

How's a Terminator going to terminate without his VPU?

 

[jasonelmore]

It's interesting Intel is using TSMC to make these chips

 

[Tiya__]

It would be interesting to see how many of these cards could be upgraded

 

[Tiya__]

It's interesting Intel is using TSMC to make these chips, this is a qa test

 

[bit_user]

It's interesting Intel is using TSMC to make these chips

Most likely due to contracts and work that was underway prior to the acquisition. It takes years to build chips.

My knowledge is a bit dated, but typically when you switch foundries, you need to switch ASIC libraries and potentially even toolchains.

 

[bit_user]

It's interesting Intel is using TSMC to make these chips, this is a qa test

I appreciate if the site is trying to QA their forum software, but please don't just copy and paste bits from other comments. Better to post some Lorem ipsum, "Testing testing 123", "This is a test post", etc.

 

[WINTERLORD]

wont be long an a asic for etheruem will be avialble with this tech

 

[velocityg4]

Neural computing, Deep Learning, AI, Edge Devices, Vision Processing

Gee Willikers! Can't they cram anymore trendy tech buzzwords in there.

 

[CAlbertson]

I notice the article say "4 TOPS" and not "4 FLOPS" so we have to assume these are integer operations. Even worse I assume they are 8-bit integers. This will be OK for deployment of retrained networks to consumer devices like cars and maybe even security cameras but can you train with only 8 bit integers?

Also unless they integrate this with Tensorflow or another popular framework I don't see people wanting to code to bare metal.

My advice is to hold onto your Nvidia Titan GPU cards for now

 

[bit_user]

can you train with only 8 bit integers?

It's a 1.5 W part. So, of course it's not designed to replace your Titan Xp for offline training.

Also unless they integrate this with Tensorflow or another popular framework I don't see people wanting to code to bare metal.

From https://www.movidius.com/myriadx :

Rapidly port and deploy neural networks in Caffe and Tensorflow formats

Although, I wish they natively supported Caffe, rather than just supporting its models.