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Posts on X2Q tagged hardware. Updated as new posts are published.

Jun 24, 2026
Google Coral Edge TPU Benchmarks & Experiments (2026)
Five models benchmarked on the Google Coral USB Accelerator: MobileNetV1 runs in 3.9 ms (5.3× faster than CPU), EfficientNet-L runs in 31 ms (9.7× faster), and SSD MobileNetV2 object detection runs in 12 ms (3.2× faster). Largest practical speedup comes from bigger models. This post shows the numbers and explains why.
Jun 24, 2026
Setting Up the Google Coral Edge TPU on Ubuntu 24.04 (2026)
The Google Coral USB Accelerator is a $30–$60 inference chip that can run quantized TFLite models at 4 TOPS — but getting it working on Ubuntu 24.04 with kernel 6.8+ requires patching the gasket-dkms source for four kernel API breakages. This post walks through every step.