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It's crazy what $5 can buy you in a microcontroller these days. Have a look at these Milk-V boards: https://milkv.io The duo has up to 256MB of memory, and a 1TOPS@INT8 TPU. They run Linux and are $5. I bought 5!
What are you going to do with 120 of them?
It's crazy what $5 can buy you in a microcontroller these days. Have a look at these Milk-V boards: https://milkv.io The duo has up to 256MB of memory, and a 1TOPS@INT8 TPU. They run Linux and are $5. I bought 5!
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You can buy sub-$0.50 microcontrollers. But even at $5, I don't know why you'd want to run models on them, it's an environment constrained to the point of being useless for this task. And I hope it stays that way, I don't want MCU shortages...
isn't floor price 0.10$ for last couple years?
Used in the cheapest devices you wouldn't even imagine to contain any software - eg. To control a touch sensitive on-off switch.
It's crazy what $5 can buy you in a microcontroller these days. Have a look at these Milk-V boards: https://milkv.io The duo has up to 256MB of memory, and a 1TOPS@INT8 TPU. They run Linux and are $5. I bought 5!
Heck, that one would have no issue running Xerox PARC OSes.
Naturally there are still use cases were a PIC with 4KB would be the best option, but lets not behave as if there isn't anything better in most cases.
It's crazy what $5 can buy you in a microcontroller these days. Have a look at these Milk-V boards: https://milkv.io The duo has up to 256MB of memory, and a 1TOPS@INT8 TPU. They run Linux and are $5. I bought 5!
Don't forget the 128 bit vector ISA with 32 registers, supporting up to 64 bit int and FP, and with LMUL=8 you can process 1024 bits with a single instruction (at 3 cycles per 128 bits for most operations). Fully supported by GCC and CLANG (xTHeadVector) and compatible with RVV 1.0 with just a command line switch if you use the C intrinsic functions. (a lot of code working on 8 bit elements is binary compatible with…
It's crazy what $5 can buy you in a microcontroller these days. Have a look at these Milk-V boards: https://milkv.io The duo has up to 256MB of memory, and a 1TOPS@INT8 TPU. They run Linux and are $5. I bought 5!
You can buy sub-$0.50 microcontrollers. But even at $5, I don't know why you'd want to run models on them, it's an environment constrained to the point of being useless for this task. And I hope it stays that way, I don't want MCU shortages...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can buy sub-$0.50 microcontrollers. But even at $5, I don't know why you'd want to run models on them, it's an environment constrained to the point of being useless for this task. And I hope it stays that way, I don't want MCU shortages...
There's a neat project out there that can read your water meter into home assistant using an ESP32+camera+computer vision. I imagine a small TPU like this could be very useful for similar projects. More compute means higher resolutions and more reliability.
Why can't this scale to run much larger models on CPU backed by flash with good access patterns?
Someone did this exact thing recently, but running GLM-5.2 with something like 16GB of DRAM, a standard desktop CPU and nVME SSD. I think they got something like 10 _seconds per token_ (not tokens per second). EDIT: it was 25GB of ram and up to 20 seconds per token! https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
It's crazy what $5 can buy you in a microcontroller these days. Have a look at these Milk-V boards: https://milkv.io The duo has up to 256MB of memory, and a 1TOPS@INT8 TPU. They run Linux and are $5. I bought 5!
I bought 5! What are you going to do with 120 of them?