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Revision as of 06:24, 2 May 2016 by 81.153.147.173 (talk) (→See also)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Movidius is a company based in San Mateo, California that designs specialized low-power processor chips for computer vision.
Company History
Movidius was co-founded in in Dublin in 2005 by Dr. Sean Mitchell and David Moloney. Between 2006 and 2016, it raised nearly $90 million in capital funding.
In January, 2016 the company announced a partnership with Google. Movidius has been active in the Google Project Tango project.
Myriad 2
Movidius's latest Myriad 2 chip is an always-on manycore Vision processing unit that can function on power contrained devices. One is contained in the Fathom USB stick, allowing a vision accelerator to be easily added to PCs, drones, IoT devices etc.
See also
References
- Newenham, Pamela. "Sean Mitchell and David Moloney, Movidius". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- "There are 100 jobs coming at this cutting-edge Irish company". Thejournal.ie. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-03-12/after-moores-law#section-3
- ^ Weckler, Adrian. "Dublin tech firm Movidius to power Google's new virtual reality headset". Independent.ie. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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