Myriad X Moves Computer Vision and Deep Learning Down to the Bare-Metal

In recent years we've seen a pretty incredible explosion in CV (computer vision) enabled devices, and the software that powers them. It's not uncommon to see autonomous robots with multiple high definition cameras using sophisticated CV algorithms for guidance, even on low-cost hobbyist robots. But, that capability comes at a pretty big processing expense. Those HD videos contain a lot of pixels, and even with techniques for optimization that make processing the video more efficient, it still takes a lot processing power to do all of the complex analysis we want our robots to do. To try try and jump ahead of these increasing demands, Intel has just announced Movidius Myriad X, which is the first vision processing unit (VPU) that has a dedicated Neural Compute Engine built into the chip.