A few days ago NVIDIA presented its new features linked to artificial intelligence, a series of improvements for cards designed to use this technology with an approach more oriented towards users than towards a professional environment, as well as a new integration to its more powerful and inexpensive range. But as we well know, these are SBCs, similar to a Raspberry Pi, which integrate the connections as well as the PCB and the hardware itself, but do not incorporate anything else to make it a truly functional device, this Who Instead solved by creating a mini PC from these plates oriented for the AI.
When we talk about an SBC, you first need to know that these are complete systems that do not include one of the most important things that a computer needs to function well, namely the case itself. -even which allows the material to be incorporated so that it is much more comfortable to use (with other additional aspects, obviously). NVIDIA's Jetson card line currently only offers one type of Jetson AGX Orin kit complete with 32 or 64 GB of RAM, but now Palit, a company specializing in assembling graphics cards, has created a Mini PC for generative AI with one of NVIDIA's new card updates.
The Pandora's box you'll want to open is Palit's new creation
Los mini PC They are extremely useful for those looking for very high performance without having hardware that takes up too much space, and this is something that Nvidia wanted to establish as a point of reference in the AI oriented for individuals with their plates Jetsonwhich now also have the shape of a miniature computer, although it is clear that its small size does not influence the power it is capable of offering.
And this model has several configurations that allow generative artificial intelligence to be taken to another level, since we can find a version that integrates 8 GB of RAM and will offer a total of 117 TOPS, or the other model that doubles the RAM memory and adds 40 TOPS to the total power, offering 157 TOPS, while both come with a 128 GB SSD with the Ubuntu operating system pre-installed, as well as JetPack SDK 6.1.1.
So that we can easily understand the scale of these miniature AI hardware, Microsoft's certification for a computer to be considered a “Copilot+ PC” is 40 TOPS, while some processors specifically geared towards AI computers like the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 offer between 55 and 85 TOPS.
This obviously implies that the Mini PC for AI resulting from the collaboration between Instead Yes Nvidia It offers in this technology almost twice the power of what one of the best AMD processors currently has (although it obviously can't compete with some graphics). It is also extremely small as you would imagine, measuring just 121mm x 145mm x 66mm and weighing a total of 470g.
We do not yet know the price that this AI hardware will have, but it is clear that it will not be cheap, since the base board that it already includes has a price of more than 500 $, so it is likely that the complete configuration will easily exceed $800.
