Intel's acquisition of visual chip startup Movidius

In last week's Intel Developer Conference, RealSense platform became a star, and the company seems to want to further expand its size and capabilities of computer vision technology. Today, Intel announced the acquisition of computer vision startup Movidius, this company is also a contributor to Google Project Tango 3D sensor technology behind it.ms27110

Movidius CEO Remy Al - boast Barzani (Remi El-Ouazzane) on the blog announced that the company will continue its original mission - "to give the visual capacity of the machine," also will work with Intel's technology RealSense cooperation. Movidius can provide low-power chipset computer vision, and has signed an agreement with Google, Lenovo, and large companies such as Xinjiang.

This company was founded eight years, about 180 employees in Silicon Valley, with offices in Ireland and Romania. The company has passed Summit Bridge Capital, Capital-E, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and other investment institutions Emertec Gestion launched several rounds of financing, financing amounted to $ 86.5 million. BSM20GP60

But the terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Movidius Myriad 2 series of graphics processors have been used to develop the next generation of virtual reality Lenovo products. And Google also reached an agreement with the company, deploying neural computing engine on the platform, in order to advance machine learning capabilities of the mobile device.