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Google completes open Coral NPU edge-AI architecture and compiler, first commercial chips ship
Google Research announced the final milestone of its Coral NPU open hardware standard — a 32-bit RISC-V architecture with a new Matrix Execution Unit for up to 1 TOPS at roughly 10mW — plus a v1.0 open-source IREE/MLIR compiler that takes JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow models directly to the hardware. Synaptics is launching the first commercial silicon built on this standard, including the Astra SR200 microcontroller series (400 GOPS) and new Coralboard SR and SL developer kits, with the SL now generally available via DigiKey. Google is also partnering with VeriSilicon and GlobalFoundries to bring the open RTL into production chips.