Movidius

Movidius is a company based in San Mateo, California, that designs low-power processor chips for computer vision. The company was acquired by Intel in September 2016.[1]

Movidius
TypeSubsidiary
Founded2005 (2005)
DefunctSeptember 2016
FateAcquired by Intel
Headquarters
San Mateo, California, U.S.
ProductsComputer vision and deep-learning processor chips
OwnerIntel
Websitemovidius.com

Company history

Movidius was co-founded in 2005 by Sean Mitchell and David Moloney in Dublin, Ireland. [2][3] Between 2006 and 2016, it raised nearly $90 million in capital funding.[4] In May 2013, the company appointed Remi El-Ouazzane as CEO.[5] In January 2016, the company announced a partnership with Google.[6] Movidius has been active in Google's Project Tango,[7] and also announced a planned acquisition by Intel in September 2016.[8]

Products
Myriad X chip (MA2485)
Myriad X chip (MA2485)

Myriad 2

The company's Myriad 2 chip is a manycore vision processing unit that can function on power-constrained devices. The Fathom is a USB stick containing a Myriad 2 processor, allowing a vision accelerator to be added to devices using ARM processors including PCs, drones, robots, IoT devices and video surveillance for tasks such as identifying people or objects. It can run at between 80 and 150 GFLOPS on 1W of power.[9]

Myriad X

Intel's Myriad X VPU (vision processing unit) is the third generation VPU from Movidius. It uses a Neural Compute Engine, a dedicated hardware accelerator—for neural network deep-learning inferences.

Neural Compute Stick
Intel NCS2 PCB front
Intel NCS2 PCB front
Intel NCS2 PCB back
Intel NCS2 PCB back

The Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS) is a tiny fanless deep-learning device that can be used to learn AI programming at the edge. NCS is powered by the same low-power, high-performance Intel Movidius Vision Processing Unit that can be found in millions of smart security cameras, gesture-controlled drones, industrial machine vision equipment, and more. Supported frameworks are TensorFlow and Caffe.[10]

On 14 November 2018, the company announced the latest version of NCS, marketed as "Neural Compute Stick 2" at the AI DevCon event in Beijing.[11]

Uses
  • Google Clips camera uses Myriad 2 VPU.[12]
  • The Intel RealSense Tracking Camera T265 uses the Myriad 2.[13]
  • Mavic used the Myriad 2 in all consumer drones announced in 2016.[14]
  • The Ryze Tello affordable programmable drone, licensing Mavic Software, uses the Myriad 2 VPU.[15]
  • ComBox Technology uses Myriad X in ComBox x64 PCIe Blad board for CNN inference in DC.

See also

References
  1. Staff, Fora. "Movidius founder after €300m sale to Intel: 'Losing control of the company is difficult'". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  2. Newenham, Pamela. "Sean Mitchell and David Moloney, Movidius". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. "There are 100 jobs coming at this cutting-edge Irish company". Thejournal.ie. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  4. "After Moore's law | Technology Quarterly". The Economist.
  5. "Movidius Raises $16 Million to Boost Augmented Reality Portfolios". SiliconAngle. July 10, 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  6. Weckler, Adrian. "Dublin tech firm Movidius to power Google's new virtual reality headset". Independent.ie. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  7. Popper, Ben (2016-03-16). "The chipmaker behind Google's project Tango is powering DJI's autonomous drone". The Verge. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  8. "Movidius + Intel = Vision for the Future of Autonomous Devices | Machine Vision Technology | Movidius".
  9. "Deep Learning On A Stick: Movidius' 'Fathom' Neural Compute Stick (Updated)". Tom's Hardware. 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
  10. "Intel® Neural Compute Stick 2". 11 October 2019.
  11. "Plug Intel's $99 Neural Compute Stick 2 into your laptop USB port to give it AI brains". CNET. 2018-11-14. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  12. Vincent, James (2017-10-06). "Google's Clips camera is powered by a tailor-made AI chip". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  13. "Robust Visual-Inertial Tracking with Tracking Camera T265". Intel RealSense Depth and Tracking Cameras. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  14. "Movidius Supplies Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit for Newest DJI Drone, the Mavic Pro". Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  15. "Cool New Tello Toy Drone Soars into CES 2018". Retrieved 2020-12-28.
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