Movidius (company)

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.[1][2] Between 2006 and 2016, it raised nearly $90 million in capital funding.[3]

In January, 2016 the company announced a partnership with Google.[4] Movidius has been active in the Google Project Tango project.

Products

Myriad 2

As of February 2016, Movidius's latest Myriad 2 chip is an always-on manycore Vision processing unit that can function on power contrained devices.[4] It is a heterogeneous architecture, combining several 128bit VLIW SIMD processors connected to a multiported Scratchpad memory, a pair of SPARC based processors for control, and a number of fixed function units to accelerate specific video processing tasks (such as small Convolutions and color conversion lookups). It includes camera interface hardware, bypassing the need for external memory buffers when interpretting realtime image inputs.

Fathom

Fathom is a USB stick containing a Myriad 2 processor, allowing a vision accelerator to be easily added to PCs, drones, IoT devices etc.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Newenham, Pamela. "Sean Mitchell and David Moloney, Movidius". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "There are 100 jobs coming at this cutting-edge Irish company". Thejournal.ie. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-03-12/after-moores-law#section-3
  4. 1 2 Weckler, Adrian. "Dublin tech firm Movidius to power Google's new virtual reality headset". Independent.ie. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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