Google Research and Synaptics shipped a dev board with two NPUs on one chip. The Synaptics Coral Dev Board, launched at Embedded World 2026, packs the Astra SL2619 SoC — dual Arm Cortex-A55 cores, Google’s open-source Coral NPU, and Synaptics’ 1-TOPS Torq NPU. First time the Coral NPU has hit production silicon.
Pre-loaded with Gemma 3 270M — unbox and run generative AI on-device, no cloud. Camera, display, USB, mic array, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth all onboard. Yocto Linux. Limited edition through RS, early access only. Built for robotics, wearables, and smart home hubs that need always-on AI on battery.
Toolchain and API Access
Synaptics’ open-source Torq toolchain (MLIR-based) takes models from TensorFlow, PyTorch, or ONNX and deploys to the NPUs. Google’s Coral SDK provides on-device inference APIs. Agent builders can run vision + language locally and expose sensor data for AI agents to query or control.
Why It’s Trending
Dual NPUs on one board is a first. Gemma 3 out of the box, open-source toolchain, no vendor lock-in. Electronic Design named it a top 5 edge AI board at Embedded World 2026. If you liked the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2, this goes further with generative AI baked in.
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