Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises cheap, small AI power

Nvidia announced the latest successful its Jetson Orin Nano AI machine line, the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit. Sort of similar a Raspberry Pi but for almighty AI processing, the tiny $249 machine packs much of an AI processing punch than the kit did earlier — for fractional the price. It’s available to bargain now.

The Jetson Nano enactment has been a low-cost mode for hobbyists and makers to powerfulness AI and robotics projects since its introduction successful 2019. Nvidia says the Nano Super’s neural processing is 70 percent higher, astatine 67 TOPS, than the 40 TOPS Nano. It besides has 50 percent much representation bandwidth, astatine 102GB/s, which should velocity up those operations.

The Jetson Orin Nano Super kit uses fundamentally the aforesaid hardware arsenic the archetypal Orin Nano kit, and the institution says it volition get the aforesaid show gains with a new JetPack update. Nvidia says the boost comes from “a caller powerfulness mode which increases the GPU, memory, and CPU clocks.”

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang showed disconnected the Nano Super successful a video:

The developer kit includes a notation bearer committee and a Jetson Orin Nano 8GB system-on-module, comprised of an Nvidia Ampere GPU with tensor cores and 6-core Arm CPU. Nvidia calls the Nano Super Developer Kit “an perfect solution” for gathering chatbots oregon ocular AI agents, arsenic good arsenic AI-based robots.