Coral NPU is a machine learning (ML) accelerator core designed for energy-efficient AI at the edge. Based on the open hardware RISC-V ISA, it is available as validated open-source IP, for commercial silicon integration.

Coral NPU’s open-source strategy aims to create a standard architecture to accelerate the edge AI ecosystem and is based on the prior work of Google Research in Coral.ai. First released in 2023 as a component of the Open Se Cura research project, it is now a dedicated initiative to drive this vision forward.