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Google has abandoned the Coral TPU
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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I wonder, is it due to architecture limitations? They don’t see a roadmap ahead for it anymore in light of changing AI hardware demands?
I assume the hardware is end of life and not just the Linux driver.
I'm guessing it's because more powerful hardware is coming out all the time. But for a lot of homelabs more power isn't really needed to watch a few cameras for basic detection.
And yes the hardware hasn't been made in a while but new old stock is still being sold. Hence the reason for the post.
For a few cameras with basic detection, an Intel 6th gen processor or newer is sufficient to run openvino on the iGPU. Works great. https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/object_detectors/#openvino-detector
This is great, if it works, on my 8500t I had nothing but problems.
I use it on a 12th gen CPU and it worked first try. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah it seemed to work for me and would then hard lock the system between 24h and a week later requiring a manual power cycle. Several people experienced the same, we had a couple of issues on the frigate github but I don't think anyone ever figured out why. Definitely openvino on the igpu though, openvino on CPU was fine.
It's due to the inner workings of the Coral TPU being basically a black box, so even if the community wanted to, we can't just reverse engineer a driver.