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As the artificial intelligence craze continues, even microcomputer company Raspberry Pi is planning to sell an AI chip. It is integrated with Raspberry Pi camera software and can natively run AI-based applications such as chatbots on the tiny computer.
Raspberry Pi has partnered with chipmaker Hailo to develop the AI Kit, which is an add-on to the Raspberry Pi 5 microcomputer that will run Hailo’s Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator. The kits will be available “soon through the global network of Raspberry Pi-approved resellers” for $70.
Says Hailo CEO and co-founder Orr Danon Edge that “its accelerator power consumption is less than 2 W and is passively cooled.” The accelerator offers 13 teraoperations per second (TOPS), which is lower than chips planned for AI laptops such as Intel’s 40 TOPS Lunar Lake processors.
Most AI applications run in the cloud because they often require huge amounts of energy and computing power to run. However, there has been a move towards smaller AI models and processors that require less power to bring AI to mobile devices. This allows laptops and phones to run AI-powered coding assistants or photo editing apps without having to invoke an API.