I think it's basically an NPU hanging off a USB connection, so it can be used as a compute device for local LLM inference instead of your existing CPU/GPU.

The Kickstarter page makes that a little more obvious - it's hardware: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiinyai/tiiny-ai-pocket...

both, but def hardware

> SoC (Armv9.2

> CPU + NPU) 30TOPS +

> dNPU 160TOPS