Google announced the Coral Board at Google I/O 2026, a compact single-board computer designed for on-device AI processing. The board features the Coral NPU, an open-source machine learning unit built on the RISC-V architecture and developed by Google Research. It is intended for small devices like headphones, AR glasses, and smartwatches, aiming to address the fragmentation issue among AI accelerators.
At its core is a Synaptics Astra SL2619 chip with a 2 GHz dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 1 TOPS of compute. Google's Gemma 3 270M model runs entirely on the board without requiring cloud connectivity. During the I/O event, Google demonstrated real-time translation, voice-controlled hardware, and a generative music performance where a YOLOv8 model tracked jellyfish movements and converted them into music.
All demos are open source on GitHub. The board is expected to ship this summer, though no price has been announced.
Source: thedecoder
