The Hailo (https://hailo.ai) is the biggest competitor at the moment. It is a lot more powerful while not requiring much more power. It does, however, have some problems with Pyhon's GIL and documentation is not always perfect. Other than that it's like the Coral but much better.
>Also a bit sad PyCoral requires python 3.9! Yikes!
It's a bit on the old side, but hardly yikes territory. Ubuntu 20.04 ships with 3.8 [1] as the system python with support until April 2025, and AWS supports 3.7-3.11 for lambda runtimes [2]. 3.12 has only just been released
It needs a whole bunch binary bindings. It is not really supported since Ubuntu 18 or pretty much any other operating system.
If you look at the github repo and bug tracker you will see it's largely abandoned. (I have a Coral USB and you can get it running with an old operating system version).
One of the most popular uses I've seen for Coral, Frigate for object detection for security cameras, recently added support for the RK3588 NPUs too: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pull/8382 . I think it requiring a RK3588 makes it a bit annoying to have to upgrade your entire setup just for this though.
3.9 isn’t that bad on my opinion. I work with other Python libraries, popular ones, that won’t work past 3.9. I think PyPDF is one of them? Something with PDF parsing.
> DLSS is only available on GeForce RTX 20, GeForce RTX 30, GeForce RTX 40, and Quadro RTX series of video cards, using dedicated AI accelerators called Tensor Cores. [23][28] Tensor Cores are available since the Nvidia Volta GPU microarchitecture, which was first used on the Tesla V100 line of products.[29] They are used for doing fused multiply-add (FMA) operations that are used extensively in neural network calculations for applying a large series of multiplications on weights, followed by the addition of a bias. Tensor cores can operate on FP16, INT8, INT4, and INT1 data types.
I'm not sure exactly what pcie corals you're referring to. If you mean the m.2 ones, it'd have to be less than the $25 or so MSRP, but if you have full-size cards I'd be very curious to see what they even look like first.
My guess is they’re referring to the mini PCIe cards. I think Coral only comes in NVMe and mini PCIe (and technically you can buy just the chip itself I believe).
Obviously mini PCIe is deprecated and it’s unlikely many people have a device with a mini PCIe slot AND they don’t need that slot for WiFi/BT. That’s probably why they’re looking to sell.
Also a bit sad PyCoral requires python 3.9! Yikes!