The VPU market is expanding fast

AR, VR, autonomous driving, and AI are demanding better vision Visual processing units (VPUs) are at the crossroads of image-processing, convolutional neural nets (CNN), machine intelligence, and the emerging augmented reality market. More than just an image processing algorithm co-processor, and more like a powerful subsystem that can take multiple streams of high-speed pixel data and feed a GPU for display, while simultaneously doing data analysis and extraction. The VPU is a relatively new device, in fact only one company is making a complete standalone VPU core—Verisilicon, but others are on the way. Cadence has two processor cores, the P5