Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor

Re:Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-proc... by amelius on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @08:40AM (#15498627)

> The camera on the new Pixel 2 is packed full of great hardware, software and machine learning (ML)

Is that hardware only accessible by the camera? If so, isn't that wasteful?

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Re:Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-proc... by lorenzhs on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:31AM (#15498947)

I think the following bit at the very bottom of the article suggests that it isn't:

"HDR+ will be the first application to run on Pixel Visual Core. Notably, because Pixel Visual Core is programmable, we’re already preparing the next set of applications. The great thing is that as we port more machine learning and imaging applications to use Pixel Visual Core, Pixel 2 will continuously improve. So keep an eye out!"

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