edgetpu VS crouton

I know the tensor power pixelbook was shutdown and I never heard the actual reason just a bunch of speculation about costs/profitability which is probably true.

It's a shame that there isn't more competition and development in the neural asic world to harness the power of llms/generative AI on a low power, cheap hardware platform like the pixelbook line. For someone that invented the TPU they have done a not so great job of ensuring it's commercialization and support. Both on the hardware and software side.

The coral edge tpu seemed to be the right high level idea but without proper execution.

https://github.com/google-coral/edgetpu/issues/668

> even in the 80s I wanted an FPGA accelerators in every machine

Mostly unrelated, but I recently discovered that you can buy TPUs, right now, as a consumer product, from https://coral.ai.

The stock firmware already allows you to run these things so hard they overheat, which is amazing.

But yes, I also want FPGA accelerators.

I'm looking at the coral.ai cards and they have a M.2 A+E card, same form factor as the wifi slot in the m900 tiny. Has anyone tried another card in that slot other than wifi?

Chips optimized to perform the type of calculations used for NN inference at high parallelism. A good example would be the google spinoff https://coral.ai/ (though their usecase is highly limited by sub-par software constraints)

By no means an expert, but I have seen prototypes using a raspberry pi and a dongle from Coral Ai. They have PCIE and USB based modules.

Last news on https://coral.ai/ was on May 5 2022

Activity on the github project seems to have stopped. https://github.com/google-coral

    https://coral.ai/

Your problem statement still needs more clarification. If the above applies, the best way is to evaluate your ML-based pattern matcher on high-level scenarios. One approach to speed up the evaluation is to lift and shift the execution of scenarios into cloud. Another approach is to use an AI accelerator, such as http://coral.ai or other.

You probably could but not with raspis. Maybe the TPUs they sell. https://coral.ai/

It's a little more than that, they then added subpixel and momentum scrolling support to Chrome that bypasses X11 and does something custom [1]. Integration problems like this one that require a bunch of coordination are harder to do in open source land.

1. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/244

I'm guessing GP means natively, not in a VM. I've been super grateful for the VM-based method, but I still prefer the native experience like that provided by Crouton[1]. With Crouton being "maintenance-only" now I share GP's hope that a similar thing will be possible and easy.

[1]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

One way to install Crouton

Go to the github of crouton they have instructions there https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

At any rate, you can try Breath, Crouton, Manjaro... those are three of the distros people have found success with. It all boils down to the specific hardware involved... which we know nothing about since you kept that to yourself.

Post in r/crouton and refer to https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton if you haven't already. However, I think it's fair to say that Crouton is now broken to the point of being effectively dead.