New Raspberry Pi HAT+ board doubles AI processing performance – where to find it [Video]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere — and the Raspberry Pi foundation is taking notice. Hot on the heels of the release of an  M.2 2242-format board with the powerful Hailo 8L AI chip that was designed to fit into the M.2 HAT+ board are boards with Hailo accelerator chips directly integrated onto the main PCB.

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So why integrate the chip into the PCB? Two reasons. First, it simplifies the setup as you just need a single board rather than the AI board and the M.2 board (although Raspberry Pi did offer both as a kit, but it’s still two boards). But the biggest advantage is that by integrating the two, the engineers have achieved better thermal dissipation.

And this better cooling has allowed Raspberry Pi to offer the board in two speeds. First is the standard 13 TOPS (tera-operations per …