Smartcow Is Building a Raspberry Pi for AI

Always interesting to see new tech coming out, but at $1800/unit it sounds quite different from a "raspberry pi".

I thought that surely you were wrong, but nope. Typo?

I agree it's misleading to call it a Raspberry Pi equivalent at that price point.

I see where they're coming from though. Since their intended customer is startups, $1800 is money that a lot of their future customers will probably not even have to think twice about spending.

But they really shouldn't compare it to the rpi.

Tl;dr

"Tera is a circuit board with ports to accommodate up to eight industrial-use cameras or other internet-connected equipment, 1 TB of memory, and the Nvidia Jetson TX1 chip (with support for its successor, the TX2). Kwok says Tera computes at 1 to 1.5 teraflops per second, with a power input of 12 volts, 5 amperes."

"Smartcow uses Nvidia’s TensorRuntime Engine, on top of which it’s built its own software development kit."

Using Nvidia's TX line will give this plenty of juice for doing AI tasks, but isn't really the same price class as a Raspberry PI.