On: Raspberry Pi AI Kit available now at $70

[jamesy0ung]

I saw that Hailo accelerator featured in another project on HN. Never heard of Hailo before, but if Raspberry Pi is reselling them, it must be good.

https://www.fpgadeveloper.com/multi-camera-yolov5-on-zynq-ul...

[algo_trader → jamesy0ung]

Hailo seems to be accelerating (ha! pun!) with funding, hw and sw

Suprised by the price tag. The board is probably <$10. 15tops should not cost $50.

I wonder whats the price for 1000 of these units. (hailo also has bigger units)

[geerlingguy → algo_trader]

The PCIe Coral TPU (with 4 TOPS compared to the Hailo-8L's 13) is still $25, and the USB 3 version is $60 — there aren't many low power alternatives and $70 for the bundle seems reasonable (with some profit margin) for what it has.

[nsteel → algo_trader]

> The board is probably <$10

What are the alternatives at this price point? Given that a "Hailo-8 Starter Kit" is $179 (I'm not sure if that's more of less powerful than this Pi one), the Pi offering seems like a good deal. But to be honest I have no feeling for what 15 tops and a load of supporting software should cost.

https://hailo.ai/order-starter-kit/

[viciousvoxel → nsteel]

The starter kit contains the Hailo-8 (26 TOPS), whereas the Pi AI kit contains the Hailo-8L (13 TOPS), so the pricing of the two seems more or less in line with each other at least

[nsteel → viciousvoxel]

Right, so $80 worth of processing and the HAT itself ($10). $70 is decent.