Google unveils new tools to bolster AI hardware development

The new dev board and what is evidently a lightbulb moment.

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.

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