Clips and Pixelbook - new Google devices with Intel Inside
In early October, Google introduced several devices under its own brand, two of which, very different in nature and purpose, are based on Intel chips. In general, the two corporations have cooperated for a long time and closely, so there is nothing surprising in this fact. However, the devices themselves seemed curious to us, and we decided to share preliminary information about them. So, on the CDRD, the Google Clips camera and the Google Pixelbook chromebook .
Google Clips is a miniature 12 Megapixel wireless camera equipped with a clip for easy attachment to a wide variety of items. However, its main feature is not this. The camera is based on the Intel Movidius Myriad 2 VPU (Vision Processing Unit), which implements self-learning functionality based on the video data received. In other words, the camera learns to highlight those around your loved ones (those whom it sees most often) and then pays special attention to them, filming interesting and stable scenes with their participation. Learning algorithms work directly on VPU, locally, without the participation of cloud services. From the resulting short clips, you can further select the most successful frames in the form of photos. Manage and view the results using the application running on Google Pixel smartphones, Samsung S7 / S8 and iPhone (6 and higher). The cost of the camera in the US is $ 249.
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Google Pixelbook is a new generation of Google laptops using the Chrome OS operating system. A laptop with a new name (it was decided to abandon the old Chromebook line) received a book case (convertable), a special Pixelbook Pen (sold separately) and an Intel Core i5 / i7 processor of the seventh generation Y-series (Kaby Lake) - the first in its class . The device is equipped with RAM up to 16 GB and SSD volume of 128-512 GB. The cost of the device without a stylus is from $ 999.
Note that Intel's contribution to the new Pixelbook is not limited to the provision of a hardware platform. It was also necessary to adapt it to an unusual operating system while maintaining functionality and performance. This path was not easy. For example, just to make the Pixelbook Pen work with the same delays as on other platforms, over 1000 edits were made to the Chrome OS code.
Google Clips is a miniature 12 Megapixel wireless camera equipped with a clip for easy attachment to a wide variety of items. However, its main feature is not this. The camera is based on the Intel Movidius Myriad 2 VPU (Vision Processing Unit), which implements self-learning functionality based on the video data received. In other words, the camera learns to highlight those around your loved ones (those whom it sees most often) and then pays special attention to them, filming interesting and stable scenes with their participation. Learning algorithms work directly on VPU, locally, without the participation of cloud services. From the resulting short clips, you can further select the most successful frames in the form of photos. Manage and view the results using the application running on Google Pixel smartphones, Samsung S7 / S8 and iPhone (6 and higher). The cost of the camera in the US is $ 249.
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Google Pixelbook is a new generation of Google laptops using the Chrome OS operating system. A laptop with a new name (it was decided to abandon the old Chromebook line) received a book case (convertable), a special Pixelbook Pen (sold separately) and an Intel Core i5 / i7 processor of the seventh generation Y-series (Kaby Lake) - the first in its class . The device is equipped with RAM up to 16 GB and SSD volume of 128-512 GB. The cost of the device without a stylus is from $ 999.
Note that Intel's contribution to the new Pixelbook is not limited to the provision of a hardware platform. It was also necessary to adapt it to an unusual operating system while maintaining functionality and performance. This path was not easy. For example, just to make the Pixelbook Pen work with the same delays as on other platforms, over 1000 edits were made to the Chrome OS code.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/373885/
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