[legolassexyman]

> The $79 price point is attractive. I wonder how much power can be packed into such a small form factor? It's surprising that a lot of power isn't necessary for deep learning applications.

It runs pretrained NN, which is the cheap part. So this is a chip optimized to preform floating point multiplication and that's it.

[shams93]

Yeah I can run pretrained models on my pi3, that's not that exciting, its more exciting that 2nd handle graphics cards are dumping onto the market.

[shams93]

If you can use a set of say 3 of these running in paralell on a pi3 with tensorflow to train models from scratch then this is more interesting.

[RBerenguel]

No training, only evaluation: https://ncsforum.movidius.com/discussion/104/can-i-use-this-...