Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 is powered by the Intel Movidius X VPU to deliver industry leading performance, wattage, and power. The NEURAL COMPUTE supports OpenVINO, a toolkit that accelerates solution development and streamlines deployment. The Neural Compute Stick 2 offers plug-and-play simplicity, support for common frameworks and out-of-the-box sample applications. Use any platform with a USB port to prototype and operate without cloud compute dependence. The Intel NCS 2 delivers 4 trillion operations per second with 8X performance boost over previous generations.

Features:

Boost productivity

• Reduce time to prototype or tune neural networks with versatile hardware processing capabilities at low cost
• Enhanced hardware processing capabilities vs. the original Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick
• Take advantage of 16 cores instead of 12 plus a neural compute engine, a dedicated deep neural network accelerato
• Up to 8X performance gain on deep neural network inference, depending on network
• Affordability accelerate deep neural network applications
• Transform the AI development kit experience
• Plug and Play Simplicity
• Affordable price point
• Supports common frameworks and includes out-of-box and fast development

• Eceptional performance per watt takes machine vision to new places
• Run "at the edge" without reliance on a cloud computing connection
• Deep learning prototyping is now available on a laptop, a single board computer or any platform with a USB port
• Accessible and affordable — take advantage of more performance per watt and highly efficient fanless design
• Combine the hardware-optimized performance of the Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU and the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO" Toolkit to accelerate deep neural network-based applications
• First in its class to feature the Neural Compute Engine — a dedicated hardware accelerator
• 16 powerful processing cores, called SHAVE cores, and an ultrahigh throughput intelligent memory fabric together make the Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU the industry leader for on-device deep neural networks and computer vision applications
• Featuring an entirely new deep neural network (DNN) inferencing engine on the chip

• Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit streamlines the development experience
• Prototype on the Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 and then deploy your deep neural network onto an Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU-based embedded device
• Streamline the path to a working prototype
• Extend workloads across Intel hardware and maximize performance
• The robust, Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit enables simpler porting and deployment of applications and solutions that emulate human vision
• The Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit streamlines development of multiplatform computer vision solutions — increasing deep learning performance
• It's now easier to develop applications for heterogenous execution across the suite of Intel acceleration technologies. Develop once and deploy across Intel CPU, VPU, Integrated Graphics or FPGA.
• If desired, users can implement their own custom layers and execute those on the CPU while the rest of the model runs on the VPU

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