You've heard about the Movidius Myriad 1 vision processing unit (VPU) inside Google's Tango prototype -- a handset that, for one thing, can map 3D spaces just by walking through them. But what about this VPU at its heart, that Movidius claims is 10-times faster and bears little resemblance to the graphics processing units (GPU) with which we are all familiar..

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