Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor

ramshanker wrote: post #3

I remember HoloLens being announced to be available in "windows 10 timeframe". Still awaiting (EDIT:) Cheaper consumer version.

It has been available for more than a year.

Re: Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor

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Post by yread » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 3:05 PM UTC

dsr_ wrote: post #2

Is it time to recognize that "AI" is the meaningless buzzword of 2017? "Nothing is cooler because it is cyber." -- J.D. Falk, RIP.

"AI" might be, "AI ASIC" is pretty cool though!

Re: Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor

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Post by wlesieutre » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 3:10 PM UTC

ramshanker wrote: post #3

I remember HoloLens being announced to be available in "windows 10 timeframe". Still awaiting (EDIT:) Cheaper consumer version.

If Windows 10 is the "forever" version of Windows with continuous upgrades then they've got plenty of time!

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Post by esterly » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 3:11 PM UTC

ramshanker wrote: post #3

I remember HoloLens being announced to be available in "windows 10 timeframe". Still awaiting (EDIT:) Cheaper consumer version.

HoloLen hardware can be purchased here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy

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Post by akvadrako » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 3:17 PM UTC

Any idea who makes it? It's probably close in architecture to GPUs, the kind of thing Nvidia and AMD are positioned to capitalise on.

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Post by nsxwolf » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 3:19 PM UTC

dsr_ wrote: post #2

Is it time to recognize that "AI" is the meaningless buzzword of 2017? "Nothing is cooler because it is cyber." -- J.D. Falk, RIP.

Next they'll add AI to the Juicebro.

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Post by ratbr » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 3:20 PM UTC

Serious question: what is an AI coprocessor technically? Some machine learnt models burned on a chip? Or some kind of a neural net with updatable weights?