The original Google Coral lineup offered a 4TOPS accelerator back in 2018-2020.[3][4]
The original (4 TOPS) Coral used ~1 watt while this new Coral TPU is designed for 10mW/0.5 TOPS.[5] That power budget fits well alongside low power MCU's.
It doesn't appear to include any hardware accelerated video encoding[6] for H264/etc, which was also a massive limitation of the original google coral (improved slightly in the Dev Board Mini). There's a lot of documentation on consuming WebRTC content, and while streaming out is mentioned ... any encoding would have to be performed on one of the A55 cores at dubious performance levels. The RK3588, for example, includes a VPU for hardware accelerated video encoding (H264/HEVC encoding @ 8k30fps).
0: https://cdn.bfldr.com/ZU41R0OK/at/tjm5s8hrmz5mgqrjtsrc5c4/sl...
1: https://www.synaptics.com/products/embedded-processors/sl261...
2: https://cdn.bfldr.com/ZU41R0OK/at/ks4thp8bw9n3bt2ktms3k34s/s...
3: https://abopen.com/news/google-launches-coral-edge-tpu-devel...
4: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/new-coral-products-for-...
5: https://developers.google.com/coral/guides/power
6: https://synaptics-astra.github.io/doc/v/latest/linux/index.h...