Yeah, that's promising, although I don't think there's much hope of support if it doesn't work as promised. And I have doubts about the software quality. As a small example: if you follow Gyrfalcon's installation instructions for the basic Plai Builder, it sets up a udev rule that makes every SCSI device world-writeable. I realized that by accident later. And of course everything is closed-source.
Gyrfalcon's own site is actively hostile to hobbyists. They only want to deal with researchers and folks preparing to package their chips into volume products. Signing up with a suitable email address and being manually approved lets you buy the device. You then have to negotiate to buy the Model Development Kits.
Hardware-wise, their stuff looks really neat. The $20 Orange Pi AI Stick Lite has the 2801 chip at 5.6 TOPS. Gyrfalcon's version of it costs $50. The 2803 chip does 16.8 TOPS. Gyrfalcon's USB-packaged version costs $70. That'd be a fantastic deal if the software situation were satisfactory, and a future Orange Pi version might be even cheaper.
This is sadly typical, and while I understand they don't want the support burden of hobbyists I would have thought the OrangePI would ship in interesting enough numbers for there to be some kind of support.
It looks like the OrangePi 4B includes ones of these chips on board?
> It looks like the OrangePi 4B includes ones of these chips on board?
Yes, it has a 2801S.
And the SolidRun Hummingboard Ripple has a 2803S. Seems a little pricy compared to a Raspberry Pi 4 + USB PLAI Plug 2803, but maybe worth it if you can actually get the software...(and I don't think they just give you one download that supports both models)
Gyrfalcon's own site is actively hostile to hobbyists. They only want to deal with researchers and folks preparing to package their chips into volume products. Signing up with a suitable email address and being manually approved lets you buy the device. You then have to negotiate to buy the Model Development Kits.
Hardware-wise, their stuff looks really neat. The $20 Orange Pi AI Stick Lite has the 2801 chip at 5.6 TOPS. Gyrfalcon's version of it costs $50. The 2803 chip does 16.8 TOPS. Gyrfalcon's USB-packaged version costs $70. That'd be a fantastic deal if the software situation were satisfactory, and a future Orange Pi version might be even cheaper.