Microsoft noemt z'n extra processor de "HPU".
Movidius bouwt een processor voor VR/AR, de "VPU".
- HPU = holographic processing unit
- VPU = vision processing unit
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3 jan 2016To boil it down, Movidius explained the point of the VPU by noting that it’s no longer sufficient to render a complex scene as a GPU does; the device must understand it. That’s just a different beast. Company representatives told Tom’s Hardware in a briefing that cramming that much performance into a low-power SoC was not previously possible and required offloading complex processing to servers in the cloud. The continuing advance of technology, coupled with specialized processors like the Myriad 2 VPU, are allowing these calculations to be done on device, eliminating network latency and enabling new experiences.
SoC = System on a chip
A system on a chip or system on chip (SoC or SOC) is an integrated circuit (also known as an "IC" or "chip") that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic systems. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions—all on a single substrate. SoCs are very common in the mobile computing market because of their low power-consumption. BRON
Movidius werd in september 2016 ingepalmd door Intel.