To make this a reality, chip maker Movidius has introduced the Fathom Neural Compute Stick. Dubbed as the "the world's first embedded neural network accelerator", this USB stick contains a deep learning processing accelerator. This stick could be connected to an existing Linux device to increase the efficiency of neural networking tasks 20-30 times. Movidius Fathom performs its task at more than 150GFLOPS, consuming less than 1.2W. "Featuring a full-fledged Myriad 2 VPU, the Fathom Neural Compute Stick not only enables rapid prototyping, but also delivers high levels of neural network compute to existing devices via a USB port," tells the explainer on Movidius website.

Chip makerMovidius has unveiledthe worlds first embedded neural network accelerator. Known as the Fathom Neural Compute Stick, this device could be pluggedinto a Linux device to allow it to performfunctions like image recognition, language comprehension, and pattern detection. To make this a reality, chip maker Movidius has introduced the Fathom Neural Compute Stick. Dubbed as thethe worlds first embedded neural network accelerator, this USB stick contains a deep learning processing accelerator. This stick could be connected to an existing Linux device to increase the efficiency of neural networking tasks 20-30 times.