Last July, I took note when Intel released the Neural Compute Stick ... Unambiguously named the ‘Neural Compute Stick 2’ (NCS2), it was reasonably priced and promised a 6-8x performance ...

The story starts with a friend giving me an Intel Compute Stick. But the problems I had were not specific to that hardware, but rather how modern Linux distributions manage their start-up process.

With this next phase of AI, we're reaching a breaking point in terms of computational hardware and memory,' Intel exec Naveen Rao says of the chipmaker's new Nervana and Movidius chips.