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Title: Asus unveils "world's first USB edge AI accelerator for both classic AI and generative AI"
Post by: Redaktion on January 10, 2026, 15:10:09

Asus is offering a new accelerator card in the form of a USB stick, which is said to offer a performance of 40 TOPS, allowing for the local acceleration of AI models. Pre-trained models can be used.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-unveils-world-s-first-USB-edge-AI-accelerator-for-both-classic-AI-and-generative-AI.1201167.0.html

Title: Re: Asus unveils \
Post by: Fazal Majid on January 12, 2026, 19:50:59

Clearly not, Google has sold the Coral TPU USB dongle for years. Much slower at 4 TOPS INT4, but it was launched 7 years ago.

Title: Re: Asus unveils
Post by: pixelhaus on January 12, 2026, 20:14:26

Here I wondered "gee that sounds awfully like a Coral TPU, it must be something entirely different and innovative".

Nope, it's just like a Coral TPU.

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