Tencent inquiry on September 6, science and technology, Intel announced the acquisition of computer vision Movidius chip companies, with the aid of the company's technology, Intel will establish themselves from virtual reality (VR) to self-driving cars, and other fields.
The Movidius had already established a cooperative relationship with some customers, such as xinjiang, FLIR, Google (weibo) and lenovo, it can add a visual function for customer's smart devices, including drones, security camera, VR and AR helmet, etc.
Movidius make chips by artificial intelligence to understand the surrounding environment, after their products will be integrated in the xinjiang elf (4) unmanned aerial vehicle (uav), as the most effective tools for sensing and real-time obstacle avoidance. Movidius chip also can let the unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) when you can't get a GPS signal in hover in a fixed position.
In addition to the unmanned aerial vehicle (uav), Movidius grasp of the technology can also be used in many fields, now the hot self-driving cars is also one of them. In addition, Intel induction RealSense depth cameras can also benefit, it can feel to "see" through the depth 3 d world, and the addition of computer vision technology will greatly extend its application range.
In addition to the above advantages, Movidus chip power consumption is not high also, very suitable for higher requirements to the life of the product.
"We will put the technology transfer to AR/VR/MR, unmanned aerial vehicles, robots, and digital security cameras," Intel's senior vice President Josh Walden (Josh Walden) said.
Because these areas are just getting started, Intel also bought Movidus to early movers, become the industry leader. After they suffered by "powers", suffered a crushing defeat in the field of mobile chips.
Walden said: "the computer vision can make computing industry" Cambrian explosion ", will be RealSense, Movidius and technology combined with our other interactive operation, thus Intel to the forefront of the new wave. In addition, Intel's leadership team will not repeat the previous mistake."
