Are computers even for anything else anymore? Is it just AI until the bubble pops? This is exhausting.

> The Pi's built-in CPU trounces the Hailo 10H.

Case closed. And that's extremely slow to begin with, the Pi 5 only gets what, a 32 bit bus? Laughable performance for a purpose built ASIC that costs more than the Pi itself.

> In my testing, Hailo's hailo-rpi5-examples were not yet updated for this new HAT, and even if I specified the Hailo 10H manually, model files would not load

Laughable levels of support too.

As another datapoint, I've recently managed to get the 8L working natively on Ubuntu 24 with ROS, but only after significant shenanigans involving recompiling the kernel module and building their library for python 3.12 that Hailo for some reason does not provide outside 3.11. They only support the Pi OS (like anyone would use that in prod) and even that is very spotty. Like, why would you not target the most popular robotics distro for an AI accelerator? Who else is gonna buy these things exactly?

"For example, the Hailo 10H is advertised as being used for a Fujitsu demo of automatic shrink detection for a self-checkout."

... why though? CV in software is good enough for this application and we've already been doing it forever (see also: Everseen). Now we're just wasting silicon.

That seems completely and utterly pointless.

A NPU that adds to price but underperforms a rasp cpu?

You get SBC with 32gb ram…

Nevermind the whole minipc ecosystem which will crush this

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I had a couple of Pis that I wanted to use as a Media center, I always had some small issues that created a suboptimal experience. Went for a regular 2nd hand amd64 with a small form factor and never looked back, much better userspace support and for my use case a much smoother experience, no lags no memory swapping and if needed I can just buy a different memory bank or a different component. I have no plans to use a raspberry pi any time soon. I am not sure these days if they really still have a niche to fill and if yes how large this niche is.