Google's Edge TPU Machine Learning Chip Debuts in Raspberry Pi-Like Dev Board

Google has officially released its Edge TPU (TPU stands for tensor processing unit) processors in its new Coral development board and USB accelerator. The Edge TPU is Google's inference-focused application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that targets low-power "edge" devices and complements the company's "Cloud TPU," which targets data centers. Credit: GoogleLast July, Google announced that it's working on a low-power version of its Cloud TPU to cater to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The Edge TPU's main promise is to free IoT devices from cloud dependence when it comes to intelligent analysis of data. For instance, a surveillance camera would no longer need to identify objects it sees in real-time through cloud analysis and could instead do so on its own, locally, thanks to the Edge TPU.