Mustang-M2BM-MX2 M.2 Card Features Two Intel Movidius Myriad X VPUs

We’ve already seen M.2 cards based on one or more Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU with the likes of AAEON AI Core XM2280 M.2 card, but there’s now another option from Taiwan-based IEI Integration Corp with their Mustang-M2MB-MX2 card.

Specifications:

AI Accelerators – 2x Intel Movidius Myriad X MA2485 VPU
Dataplane Interface – M.2 BM Key
Power Consumption – Around 7.5W
Cooling – Active Heatsink
Dimensions – 22 x 80 mm
Temperature Range – -20°C~60°C
Humidity – 5% ~ 90%

Just like other Myriad X devices, the card relies on Intel OpenVINO toolkit working on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 64-bit, CentOS 7.4 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit operating systems, and supporting AlexNet, GoogleNetV1/V2, MobileNet SSD, MobileNetV1/V2, MTCNN, Squeezenet1.0/1.1, Tiny Yolo V1 & V2, Yolo V2, ResNet-18/50/101 topologies, as well as TensorFlow, Caffe, MXNet, and ONNX AI frameworks.

The heatsink is really thick (~2 cm high), so it’s not something you’d just put in your laptop, and instead, it’s better suited to specialized systems such as the company’s FLEX-BX200-Q370 AI inference system based on Coffee Lake processor and equipped with M.2 and PCIe ports for such kind of cards.

IEI Mustang-M2BM-MX2 can be purchased on sites like Mouser for around $182 in single-unit quantities. More details may be found on the product page.

Thanks to Rainer for the tip.

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

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