Intel excited by Ireland's promise as a 'powerhouse for Edge AI'

The first Edge AI incubator came to a close at Talent Garden Dublin with entrepreneurs demonstrating their computer vision technologies. Intel's first ever Edge AI incubator programme, first announced in October 2018, offered a unique opportunity for a diverse group of companies to integrate computer vision technology into their hardware solutions, building on the expertise in machine vision developed by the Intel Movidius team. After what was deemed a fantastic response to the initial call for participants, the selected companies set to work within the incubator at Talent Garden Dublin in January 2019. 'We are looking at how we can take the learnings of this first incubator programme and use it to inform further opportunities for technology innovation' – NOEL MURPHY The technologies these Edge AI companies have been developing for the past six months are based on Myriad 2 and Myriad X hardware and software from Intel, with the support of the local Intel team in Leixlip. "The incubator programme has been about taking technology being developed by Intel Movidius and using it to catalyse innovation, which we hope will support Ireland in becoming a powerhouse for Edge AI," said Noel Murphy, vice-president of Intel's AIPG group and director of engineering for Intel Movidius.