New Coral products for 2020
Blog post from Google Cloud
Local AI is gaining traction across various industries due to its advantages in speed, bandwidth savings, and user privacy. Coral, a platform from Google Research, offers hardware components and software tools to facilitate the development and scaling of local AI products, with its offerings now available in 36 countries. For 2020, Coral introduced new products to enhance its platform, including the Coral Accelerator Module, which integrates the Edge TPU ASIC and supports both PCIe and USB interfaces for custom designs, and the Coral Dev Board Mini, which offers a compact, cost-effective solution for computer vision tasks. The System-on-Module (SoM) now comes in variations with increased RAM, broadening its application potential in smart cities, manufacturing, and healthcare. Additionally, Asus has incorporated the Coral SoM into its Tinker Edge T single-board computer, designed for makers. These advancements, showcased at CES 2020, underscore Coral's commitment to expanding the possibilities of local AI solutions.