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Isn't the Coral line already dead/discontinued? The site (coral.ai) seems to have been last updated in 2021 and it says Copyright 2020. Oh god, just searched f

Isn't the Coral line already dead/discontinued? The site (coral.ai) seems to have been last updated in 2021 and it says Copyright 2020. Oh god, just searched for "google coral twitter" looking for an official twitter presence of the project and the second hit was a tweet of yours looking to sell your 100 excess boards.

michaelt 2y ago
Well, they haven't announced it's dead. In the electronics industry, even 30-year-old microcontrollers often have pin- and software-compatible replacements available to this day. So just because something has long been surpassed, doesn't mean it becomes unavailable. The electronics industry also has an orderly process for discontinuing parts, where customers are given advanced notice and a chance to place one last order if they want to stock up. This process hasn't been started for the Coral accelerators. With all that said - it's pretty clear that Google has lost interest in the product. When you're making hundreds of billions of dollars from ads, who's got the time for a product line that's bringing less than 0.1% of that? So personally I wouldn't base a new product on Coral today.
- Aherontas 2y ago
  It is really common for Google to delete projects out of the blue. So don't be surprised that they haven't much updates.
dgacmu 2y ago
I haven't seen anything official indicating it's discontinued, and they've released a few updated libraries, but there certainly seems to be very little momentum and I'm skeptical about its future. I think some friends have still bought the USB accelerator version of it to use with the frigate DVR, though. Not a good sign when offers to sell old ones feature prominently in the search results. :) It's a shame. They're actually really quite nice boards. I may have to sell them from the startup to my academic self and use them for some project or another if nobody wants them - but I don't really want to teach a machine vision course.

michaelt 2y ago

Well, they haven't announced it's dead. In the electronics industry, even 30-year-old microcontrollers often have pin- and software-compatible replacements available to this day. So just because something has long been surpassed, doesn't mean it becomes unavailable. The electronics industry also has an orderly process for discontinuing parts, where customers are given advanced notice and a chance to place one last order if they want to stock up. This process hasn't been started for the Coral accelerators. With all that said - it's pretty clear that Google has lost interest in the product. When you're making hundreds of billions of dollars from ads, who's got the time for a product line that's bringing less than 0.1% of that? So personally I wouldn't base a new product on Coral today.

Aherontas 2y ago
It is really common for Google to delete projects out of the blue. So don't be surprised that they haven't much updates.

dgacmu 2y ago

I haven't seen anything official indicating it's discontinued, and they've released a few updated libraries, but there certainly seems to be very little momentum and I'm skeptical about its future. I think some friends have still bought the USB accelerator version of it to use with the frigate DVR, though. Not a good sign when offers to sell old ones feature prominently in the search results. :) It's a shame. They're actually really quite nice boards. I may have to sell them from the startup to my academic self and use them for some project or another if nobody wants them - but I don't really want to teach a machine vision course.