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At this point, these chips aren't anywhere close to the frontier of capability for embedded accelerators, and certainly don't merit an entire M.2 slot in a seri
by pclmulqdq 2y ago
At this point, these chips aren't anywhere close to the frontier of capability for embedded accelerators, and certainly don't merit an entire M.2 slot in a serious design.
These are at 5-year-old design and it shows.
- margalabargala 2y agoFair, the actual M2 version linked would not be what would be used beyond convenient development. The actual TPU chip itself from the M2 card is sold individually as a surface mount chip and that is what would be used in a "serious" design. https://coral.ai/products/accelerator-module https://coral.ai/products/accelerator-module I did a cursory search and I can find zero other products that compete with that module, within an order of magnitude of power consumption/price/etc
- pclmulqdq 2y agoAt this point, nobody sells modules for this, and I doubt many coral chips still sell. The current slot for an ML accelerator at about 10 TOPS is as a peripheral on an SoC. Most serious SoCs have one. In other words, the reason you didn't find a commercial competitor to these things is that the competitor is (nearly) free. Here's one vendor: https://www.ti.com/technologies/edge-ai.html https://www.ti.com/technologies/edge-ai.html