Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises a little cheap AI power
Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises a little cheap AI power
Nvidia announced the latest in its line of computers Jetson Orin Nano AIthe Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit. Kind of like a Raspberry Pi, but for powerful AI processing, the little $249 computer offers more AI processing power than the kit previously had for half the price. It is available for purchase now.
The Jetson Nano line has been an inexpensive way for hobbyists and creators to power AI and robotics projects since its introduction in 2019. Nvidia claims the Nano Super’s neural processing is 70% higher, at 67 TOPS , than that of the 40 TOPS Nano. It also has 50% more memory bandwidth, at 102 GB/s, which should speed up these operations.
The Jetson Orin Nano Super kit uses essentially the same hardware as the original Orin Nano kit, and the company says it will obtain the same performance gains with a new JetPack update. Nvidia says the improvement comes from a “new power mode that increases GPU, memory, and CPU frequencies.”
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang demonstrated the Nano Super in a video:
The development kit includes a reference carrier board and an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano system-on-module, consisting of an Nvidia Ampere GPU with tensor cores and a 6-core Arm CPU. Nvidia calls the Nano Super Developer Kit “an ideal solution” for creating chatbots or visual AI agents, as well as AI-based robots.
