Re:Ask HN: What is a AI chip and how does it work?
by reesul on Saturday May 27, 2023 @01:46PM
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Yeah I’m very surprised to see a single board computer at less than $100 for a processor like that. Hard to tell what their actual 1ku price is, but if the random Alibaba I found for $20 is right, then that price for the overall board is absurd.
By VPU are you talking about stuff like ISP, video encoder/decoder, or something else?
Among embedded processors I’ve seen touting vision acceleration, gstreamer support is fairly widespread. I bit the bullet to learn it because my role requires it. Maybe it’s Stockholm Syndrome talking, but I’ve somehow grown to like gstreamer. The learning curve was awkward. I struggled with documentation and learned more by analyzing some examples and trial-and-error.
Re:Ask HN: What is a AI chip and how does it work?
by grozzle on Saturday May 27, 2023 @04:38PM
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Oh no. The prospect of gstreamer being the only way... Oh no.
Maybe there's a zsh plugin or smth that autocompletes sane defaults? AAAAAAAAHHHHHH there surely isn't, anyone merciful enough to make one would just use ffmpeg instead...
I do know they have their own special sauce to talk to the NPU. I was discouraged from making the effort myself because their special sauce to talk to the VPU has barely any ffmpeg support, it p much only uses gstreamer, and I'm neither a masochist nor French so that's a non-starter.