Intel releases a new generation of movidius Vpu: 10 times higher performance and 30W power consumption

11 month 13 Early morning ,Intel At the Artificial Intelligence Summit held in San Francisco, the new generation of Intel was officially released Movidius VPU（ Visual processing unit ）, code-named Keem Bay, Can be used for edge media 、 Computer vision and reasoning applications , It is planned to be listed in the first half of next year .

According to introducing ,Keem Bay Compared with the previous generation VPU Promoted 10 More than times , Reached NVIDIA's TX2 Of 4 times , Huawei Ascend 310 Of 1.25 times , And the power consumption is only about 30W.Intel Express , If we can make full use of Intel OpenVINO Toolkit developers can get 50% Extra performance . in addition , In certain circumstances ,Keem Bay Performance per watt is better than NVIDIA TX2 Higher than 6.2 times . On the reasoning performance density per unit area ,Keem Bay Reached NVIDIA TX2 Of 8.7 times .

Intel Express ,Keem Bay Will be in 2020 Launched in the first half of , Landing forms include PCIe Interface and M.2 Interface products .

It is worth mentioning that , at present Intel Pay great attention to its AI business . At the recent earnings call ,Intel Once said , Its 2019 In, the income of artificial intelligence will reach 35 Billion dollars , and 2017 In, the figure was only 10 Billion dollars ,Intel What's the plan 2022 Achieved in artificial intelligence 100 $100 million in revenue .

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