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 been cooperating 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 KDPV camera Google Clips and Chromebook Google Pixelbook .



    Google Clips is a miniature 12-megapixel wireless camera equipped with a clip for easy mounting on a wide variety of subjects. However, its main feature is not this. The camera is based on VPU (Vision Processing Unit) Intel Movidius Myriad 2that implements self-learning functionality based on the resulting video data. In other words, the camera learns to distinguish among the people around your loved ones (those whom it most often sees) and then pays special attention to them, shooting interesting and stable scenes with their participation. Learning algorithms work directly on the VPU, locally, without the participation of cloud services. From the received short clips, you can further select the most successful frames in the form of photos. Management and viewing of results is carried out using an application that runs on smartphones Google Pixel, Samsung S7 / S8 and iPhone (6 and above). The cost of a camera in the USA is $ 249.



    Google pixelbook- 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 convertible case, a special Pixelbook Pen (sold separately) and the seventh generation Intel Core i5 / i7 processor (Kaby Lake) - the first in its class . The device is equipped with RAM up to 16 GB and an SSD 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 OS while maintaining functionality and performance. This path was not easy. Say, just to make the Pixelbook Pen work with the same delays as on other platforms, over 1000 edits have been made to the Chrome OS code.

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