Still looking for a gift for that special someone? How about an AI supercomputer from Nvidia?
Just in time for the holidays (and just the right size to fit under a tree), Nvidia this week introduced its Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a cheaper, palm-sized member of the Jetson Orin Nano family which, as the “Super” suggests, provides beefier TOPS and generative AI inference performance than its most immediate predecessor, the Jetson Orin Nano.
Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager of embedded and edge computing at Nvidia, said during a brief that the Jetson Orin Nano Super delivers as much as 1.7x the generative AI inference performance as Jetson Orin Nano, and a 70% increase in TOPs to 67 INT8 (integer array) TOPS, and a 50% increase in memory bandwidth to 102 Gbps compared with the Jetson Orin Nano.
Nvidia said it will be most useful for developers working in generative AI, robotics , and computer vision who are creating and prototyping edge AI applications like visual AI agents, chatbots, and AI-based robots,
The developer kit consists of a Jetson Orin Nano 8GB system-on-module and a reference carrier board in a platform. The SoM features an Nvidia Ampere architecture GPU with tensor cores and a 6-core Arm CPU, facilitating multiple concurrent AI application pipelines and high-performance inference. It can support up to four cameras, offering higher resolution and frame rates than previous versions.
“The developer kit is what everybody starts with for development and prototyping, Talla said. “Many of the commercial and industrial companies that are trying to build an end product and ship it to the market end up using a Jetson module.” He added later, “What we are doing is taking the old Nano, which is already wildly popular, and putting a cape on it to make it a super version.”
The Jetson Orin family of products run Nvidia AI software like Issac (for robotics) and Holoscan (for computer vision) is typically targeted at edge AI, machine learning, and computer vision applications, and with the Jetson Orin Nano Super, Nvidia is aiming to open up these use cases to every budget and every user–from commercial AI developers to hobbyists and students. The initial price of $249, down from $499, confirms that.