Google officially announced the new Coral Board development board at the 2026 Google I/O conference. This compact single-board computer is designed for edge AI and aims to address the industry's problem of fragmented AI accelerators. The board features an open-source machine learning unit developed by Google Research—the Coral NPU based on RISC-V architecture—and uses the Synaptics Astra SL2619 chip.

In terms of hardware configuration, the board is equipped with a 2GHz dual-core processor and 2GB of memory, offering 1 TOPS of local computing power, specifically tailored for small, low-power devices such as earbuds, AR glasses, and smartwatches.

Thanks to vertical hardware optimization, Google's latest open-source lightweight language model, Gemma 3270M, can run entirely offline on the Coral Board without any cloud computing support. At the conference, Google demonstrated real-time translation, voice control, and a generative performance that tracks jellyfish movement using the YOLOv8 model and converts it into music.