{"id":220820,"date":"2017-07-21T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T06:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=220820"},"modified":"2017-07-21T08:20:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T06:20:34","slug":"intel-launches-movidius-compute-stick-with-built-in-ai-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/220820-intel-launches-movidius-compute-stick-with-built-in-ai-processor.html","title":{"rendered":"Movidius Compute Stick with built-in AI processor from Intel \u2014 South African pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has announced the launch of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.movidius.com\/news\/intel-democratizes-deep-learning-application-development-with-launch-of-movidius-neural-compute-stick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movidius Neural Compute Stick<\/a><\/strong>, a USB drive with an onboard machine learning processor.<\/p>\n<p>Movidius was acquired by Intel in September last year and the company took over its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movidius.com\/news\/movidius-announces-deep-learning-accelerator-and-fathom-software-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fathom Neural Compute Stick project<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The compute stick features a Movidius visual processing unit (VPU) and can connect to devices via a USB 3.0 Type-A connector.<\/p>\n<p>The device draws a miniscule amount of power and allows developers to run prototype AI applications offline.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also connect multiple compute sticks together to provide improved VPU performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Movidius Neural Compute Stick is available from RS Components for <a href=\"http:\/\/za.rs-online.com\/web\/p\/processor-microcontroller-development-kits\/1393655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>R1,836<\/strong><\/a> excluding VAT.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VioTPaYcF98\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/220230-intel-core-x-vs-amd-ryzen-south-african-pricing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel Core X vs AMD Ryzen \u2013 South African pricing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has announced the launch of the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, a USB drive with an onboard machine learning processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":220822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[131,44740,44744],"class_list":["post-220820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-intel","tag-movidius","tag-movidius-neural-compute-stick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220832,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220820\/revisions\/220832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}