Geniatech is seeking to energy native machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) programs, with a selected deal with giant language fashions (LLMs) as much as seven-billion-parameters in measurement, with its APC880 and APC880 Mini programs, powered by NXP’s i.MX 8M Plus and a Kinara Ara-2 accelerator.
“The i.MX 8M Plus AI Edge Computing PC relies on the high-performance [NXP] i.MX 8M Plus SoC [System-on-Chip], […] the primary NXP built-in transmission nerve [sic] processing unit (NPU) product, operating [at] charges of as much as 2.3 TOPS [Tera-Operations Per Second],” Geniatech writes of its newest launch. “Deal with machine studying and imaginative and prescient, multimedia, and industrial automation with excessive reliability. Additionally paired with the Kinara Ara-2 40 TOPS computing chip, [for] fast prototyping of edge AI software eventualities. It may be extensively utilized in machine studying and synthetic intelligence, NPU imaginative and prescient system, superior multimedia, and industrial automation.”
Geniatech is seeking to drive generative AI on the edge with tits APC880 (prime) and APC880 Mini (above) AI PCs. (📷: Geniatech)
The APC880 and its Mini sibling, delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, each function the NXP i.MX 8M Plus system-on-chip, with 4 Arm Cortex-A53 cores operating at as much as 1.8GHz, a Cortex-M7 core operating at 800MHz for real-time workloads, a Vivante GC7000UL graphics processor, and an in-house neural processing unit (NPU) delivering a claimed 2.3 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute at minimal precision. That alone is not sufficient to run trendy generative AI workloads with any respectable efficiency, so Geniatech has added a Kinara Ara-2 coprocessor — which delivers a beefier 40 TOPS at minimal precision, sufficient to run the seven-billion-parameter distilled model of well-liked LLM DeepSeek totally domestically at affordable speeds.
There is a alternative of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB of LPDDR4 reminiscence for the primary system plus 16GB of devoted RAM for the Ara-2 chip, plus 8GB to 128GB of eMMC storage and a microSD card slot for enlargement. Each fashions embrace LVDS, HDMI, and MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI) outputs, two gigabit Ethernet ports, built-in dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 plus elective mobile connectivity, no less than one USB 2.0 and one USB 3.0 Kind-A ports with one other two USB 2.0 ports by way of a header, and a rack-mountable housing that doubles as a heatsink.
Each fashions are constructed round an NXP i.MX 8M Plus system-on-chip, plus a Kinara Ara-2 accelerator. (📷: Geniatech)
The place the 2 differ is within the particulars. The complete-size mannequin consists of one two-lane and one four-lane MIPI Digital camera Serial Interface (CSI) to the 2 4 lane connectors of the Mini, the APC880 has analog audio connectivity lacking totally on the Mini plus further USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, and the APC880 features a four-pin RS232, four-pin RS485, and two four-pin CAN bus headers to the 2 mixed RS232/RS485 and single CAN bus header of the Mini. Curiously, the Kinara Ara-2 accelerator is an elective further on the APC880 — and replaceable with a Hailo accelerator, for these already working inside that ecosystem — however comes as customary with the APC880 Mini.
Extra info is obtainable on the APC880 and APC880 Mini product pages; on the time of writing, Geniatech had not publicly disclosed pricing for both mannequin.
