bolster ai hardware development
Google unveils new tools to bolster AI hardware development
Google continues to expand its range of AI products and services with a trio of new hardware devices aimed at the development community. The devices don't seem to have been officially announced yet and were first spotted by Hackster. They're being introduced under a new Google Coral brand (which is itself still "in beta"), and include a development board that sells for $149.99, a USB accelerator that goes for $74.99, and a 5-megapixel camera that's available for $24.99. Both dev board and accelerator are powered by Google's Edge TPU chips, which are ASIC processors no bigger than your fingernail that are designed to run AI models without breaking a sweat. The camera, meanwhile, is as an add-on for the dev board.