Google's Raspberry Pi-like Coral board lands: Turbo-charged AI on a tiny computer ZDNet

Developers can now get their hands on Google's souped-up answer to the Raspberry Pi: the $150 Coral Dev Board, which features Google's Edge TPU machine-learning accelerator for low-powered devices that sit on the edge of a network. Google unveiled the tiny Edge TPU ASIC last July as its low-cost chip for bringing machine learning to sensors that can run machine-learning models on the TensorFlow lite framework. The Edge TPU now features in the Coral-branded $75 USB'thum bdrive' accelerator and as part of a removable'system on module' that ships with a developer baseboard. The Edge TPU Module includes an NXP i.MX 8M system on chip that consists of a quad-core Cortex-A53 and Cortex-M4F, a Vivante GC7000 Lite Graphics graphics processor, 8GB of eMMC storage, and 1GB of LDDR4 RAM. The baseboard has a RPi-like 40-pin GPIO expansion header, microSD slot for flash memory, USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet port, USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports for power and peripherals, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a terminal to wire up stereo speakers.