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the problem with these boards is that there are not enough general purpose cores, and the TPU is only really usable for a very small niche set of computing problems. only 0.00001% of developers is really interested in doing anything with AI, which is mostly a fad hyped up by the media anyway. what we need is a 16 core A17 or A72, without peripherals that are only useful to 0.01% of developers out there. these cores can then be applied to a variety of real world use cases where 4 or 8 cores is simply not enough.
downvoted, because criticism of google is not allowed here.
You did not even mention Google. Your comment reminds me of people who said GPU is not an important development a decade or more back. I was in high-school back then and can see why TPUs can be super relevant 10 years from now. Someone has to start...
the problem with GPUs is the same - really only applicable to graphics and now since a few years AI, shoehorned into something which was never meant to deal with AI workloads. meanwhile nothing has been done to increase the number of cores, which is really important to be able to run a wider variety of computationally intensive applications on embedded/mobile devices. what most SoC companies are doing is simply slapping on a variety of irrelevant peripherals instead of focusing on what's important - more cores.
I'd rather think your comment has been downvoted because of the baseless claims therein. If you don't like that device, then, well, that's like your opinion man.