The Google Coral Expansion Card is a community-designed expansion card that integrates a Google Coral Edge TPU accelerator module into the Framework Laptop's expansion card form factor. Created by Evgeni Genchev in May 2022, the project enables on-device machine learning inference (TensorFlow Lite) through a dedicated TPU chip housed in a standard expansion card slot.
The Plugable TBT5-AI is a Thunderbolt 5 eGPU enclosure marketed for local AI inference, pairing an 850W ATX 3.1 power supply (80+ Gold, 600W dedicated to the GPU) with a PCIe 4.0 x4 slot and a built-in Thunderbolt 5 dock. It provides 96W host charging, a downstream Thunderbolt 5 port, 10Gbps USB-A/C ports, and 2.5GbE Ethernet. It is TAA compliant and supports Thunderbolt 5, Thunderbolt 4, and USB4 (eGPU-capable) Windows 11 hosts with Intel 11th-gen+ or AMD Zen 4+ CPUs.