AAEON has introduced three new entries in its UP single-board laptop line-up, all aimed toward edge synthetic intelligence (edge AI) and on-device machine studying (ML) initiatives: the UP TWL and ARL AI Dev Package vary.
“The UP Squared Professional TWL Dev Package takes AI efficiency up a notch with its Palm+ measurement dev board and built-in AI accelerator choices,” AAEON says of the mid-range mannequin in its trio of recent boards, “offering as much as 25 TOPS [minimum-precision Tera-Operations Per Second] of AI inferencing energy and sooner or later helps as much as 214 TOPs based on Axelera Metis AI acceleration card.”
AAEON is trying to energy you subsequent edge AI undertaking with its new TWL (above, high) and AWL (backside) improvement boards. (📷: AAEON UP)
The AAEON UP Squared Professional TWL AI Dev Package, delivered to our consideration alongside its stablemates by Linux Gizmos, is powered by an Intel Processor N150, a 64-bit chip with 4 cores and 4 threads operating at as much as 3.6GHz “turbo” frequency and with 6MB of Intel Good Cache plus an embedded 24-execution-unit Intel Graphics processor operating at as much as 1GHz. That is accelerated by the inclusion of a Hailo-8L module, delivering 13 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of minimal precision compute — whereas those that want extra can swap to the DeepX DX-M1 that delivers a claimed 25 TOPS. Lastly, the Axelera Metis variant affords a claimed 214 TOPS — although additionally requires an energetic cooler, which is included within the bundle. All fashions embrace 8GB of reminiscence and 64GB of on-board storage, pre-installed with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and AAEON’s personal UP AI Suite software program “for analysis functions.”
For the tinkerer on a price range, an “Entry” variant drops to a smaller Raspberry Pi-inspired kind issue and loses assist for PCI Specific accelerator modules — however retains the identical Intel Processor N150. 8GB of RAM, and 64GB of EMMC storage. Apparently, the corporate’s specs additionally present an Intel Altera Max V field-programmable gate array (FPGA) on board, rather than a Lattice Semiconductor chip on the mid-range mannequin, however it’s not clear whether or not that is uncovered to the person for customized gateware.
The mid- and top-end boards are appropriate with a variety of accelerators, together with the 214 TOPS Axelera Metis. (📷: AAEON UP)
On the high finish of the brand new trio is the AAEON UP Xtreme ARL AI Dev Package, which jumps to the Intel Core Extremely 5 225H processor — that means a complete of 14 processor cores of which 4 are efficiency cores operating at as much as 4.9GHz, eight are environment friendly cores operating at as much as 4.3GHz, and two are low-power cores operating at as much as 2.5GHz, 18MB of cache, and an Intel Arc 130T graphics processor with seven Xe cores and ray-tracing capabilities. This, the corporate says, can ship 63 TOPS of minimum-precision compute — and, as earlier than, you possibly can add M.2-format accelerators to spice up that additional. There’s 16GB of RAM this time, and a 256GB M.2 SSD for storage — plus the identical Ubuntu 24.04 set up as the remainder of the household.
Extra data on the UP TWL AI Dev Package Entry, UP Squared Professional TWL AI Dev Package, and UP Xtreme ARL AI Dev Package can be found on their respective product pages; costs begin at $279 for the Entry mannequin, $469 for the mid-range mannequin with Hailo-8L accelerator, and $899 for the UP Xtreme ARL.
