Intel buys chip maker Movidius to help bring computer vision to drones

Intel's RealSense computer vision platform has been lacking a low-powered way of recognizing what its depth-sensing cameras are seeing -- until now.The chip giant is buying Movidius, the designer of a range of system-on-chip products for accelerating computer vision processing.Movidius supplies chips to drone makers such as DJI and to thermal imaging company FLIR Systems, itself a supplier of DJI.Its chips help computers figure out what they are seeing through cameras like Intel's RealSense by b