As the AI craze continues, microcomputer company Raspberry Pi also plans to sell AI chips. It is integrated with the Raspberry Pi's camera software and allows the tiny computer to run natively AI-based applications such as chatbots.
Raspberry Pi has partnered with chipmaker Hailo for an AI kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 microcomputer running Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator. The kit will be available for $70 “soon from a worldwide network of Raspberry Pi approved resellers.”
Hailo CEO and co-founder Orr Danon said: The Verge The accelerator's “power consumption is less than 2W and is passively cooled.” The accelerator delivers 13 tera operations 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 operate. However, there has been a move to create smaller AI models and processors that require less power to bring AI to portable devices. This allows laptops and phones to run coding assistants or AI-based photo editing applications without making API calls.