Movidius, an Intel subsidiary, launched its first-ever Neural Compute Stick (NCS). NCS is the world’s first AI accelerator contained within a USB flash drive. This is used to run deep neural network processes natively (on edge). Otherwise, most neural network operations require a central server with huge computing power. NCS enables in had AI processing. This device is powered by Myriad 2 VPU (Vision Processing Unit). Read more

July, 2017