M5Stack has unveiled its 24 TOPS AI Pyramid Pro pyramid-shaped desktop personal computer. Apart from its novel design, this new piece of hardware is specifically designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) locally rather than in the cloud.
To this end, it can be thought of more as an “AI appliance” than a traditional PC. It’s shaped like a pyramid mostly for fun and branding, but inside it’s serious edge-AI hardware.
The device is compact and comes with 8GB RAM, strong video encode/decode, multi-camera support, rich I/O, and low-power operation. It also comes with 32GB of onboard eMMC storage, and offers dual HDMI 2.0 ports, four USB-A 3.0 ports, and two USB Type-C ports.
As for its declared computing power, 24 TOPS is pretty impressive. TOPS stands for…