Nvidia’s $249 development kit provides inexpensive, low-cost AI power

Nvidia announced the latest product in the line of Jetson Orin Nano AI computers, the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit. Sort of like a Raspberry Pi, but in terms of powerful AI processing, the little $249 computer offers more AI processing capabilities than the earlier kit – at half the price. His available for purchase now.

The Jetson Nano line has been a low-cost way for hobbyists and creators to power artificial intelligence and robotics projects since its introduction in 2019. Nvidia claims the Nano Super’s neural processing is 70 percent higher, at 67 TOPS, than the 40 TOPS Nano . It also has 50 percent 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 the company claims will get the same performance gain in case a new JetPack update. Nvidia says the power boost is due to “a new power mode that increases GPU, memory and CPU clocks.”

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang showed off the Nano Super in a video:

The development kit includes a reference carrier board and a Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB 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 the “ideal solution” for creating AI chatbots or visual agents, as well as AI robots.