Google announced it would bring two new products to their cloud platform to aid customers in developing and deploying their devices. These products are the Edge TPU, a new hardware chip, and Cloud IoT Edge, an expansion of the Google Cloud AI capability for gateways as well as connected devices.
Google’s Edge TPU is not the first hardware chip they release – a few months ago the Cloud TPU, for running machine learning workloads written for its TensorFlow framework, was made available in Beta.