RS Components is shipping the recently launched Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 (Intel NCS 2) – a highly affordable small and fanless computer-vision and deep-neural-network (DNN) accelerator.
Used by data scientists and academics, the device is also perfect for a broad selection of engineers and developers looking at integrating computer-vision and AI abilities into their IoT applications. Offered in a useful USB form factor, the stick provides high versatility for users, allowing deep-learning prototyping on a laptop or device with a USB interface.
The device also shifts into a highly versatile prototyping and development tool when combined with the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, which provides support for deep learning, computer vision and hardware acceleration to allow applications that have human-like vision abilities. The incorporation of the device and toolkit allows a fast development-to-deployment cycle: from prototyping trained DNNs on the compute stick to the straightforward porting of DNNs to an Intel Movidius VPU-based embedded device or system with minimal code changes needed if any. The device also offers support for the popular open-source Caffe and TensorFlow DNN software libraries.
