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Potential M.2 accelerators perfect fit for the new double SSD expansion bay? (self.framework)
submitted 6 days ago by TheHobbyist to c/[email protected]
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Just landed on this article by Phoronix on an AI accelerator in an m.2 drive format.

This one is from memryX and seems to be rather mature and capable though mostly low power.

I can't stop thinking that this may be a great usecase for the new expansion bay for the Framework laptop 16, with it's two additional full size m.2 slots. Would be very interesting to see whether two of these could be combined and used jointly and how much acceleration it provides compared to the AMD CPU alone.

Anyway, just sharing because I thought it was cool.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Given they don't have any DRAM, you're probably going to get better results with a GPU (or even the CPU) but in principle using the m.2 as an accelerator could be useful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Could also look at a Coral m.2 if tensor detectors are more your speed.