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Nvidia Announces Jetson Nano Dev Kit & Board: X1 for $99
Today at GTC 2019 Nvidia launched a new member of the Jetson family: The new Jetson Nano. The Jetson family of products represents Nvidia new focus on robotics, AI and autonomous machine applications. A few months back we had the pleasure to have a high level review of the Jetson AGX as well as the Xavier chip that powers it. The biggest concern of the AGX dev kit was its pricing – with retail costs of $2500 ($1299 as part of Nvidia's developer programme), it's massively out of range of most hobbyist users such as our readers.
[...] The Jetson Nano is a full blown single-board-computer in the form of a module. The module form-factor and connector is SO-DIMM and is similar to past Nvidia modules by the company. The goal of the form-factor is to have the most compact form-factor possible, as it is envisioned to be used in a wide variety of applications where a possible customer will design their own connector boards best fit for their design needs.
At the heart of the Nano module we find Nvidia's "Erista" chip which also powered the Tegra X1 in the Nvidia Shield as well as the Nintendo Switch. The variant used in the Nano is a cut-down version though, as the 4 A57 cores only clock up to 1.43GHz and the GPU only has half the cores (128 versus 256 in the full X1) active. The module comes with 4GB of LPDDR4 and a 16GB eMMC module. The Jetson Nano module will be available to interested parties for $129.
$99 without storage.
Related: Nvidia Reveals Jetson Xavier SoC for Robots
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday March 19 2019, @06:17AM (2 children)
"Nvidia (sic) new focus on robotics, AI and autonomous machine applications".
Consider that the difference between a video game robot and an industrial robot is that the industrial bot _verifies_ that commands issued were actually executed _correctly_.
Such closed feedback loops have been a solved problem since the fifties or so.
As for AI?
Nigga, please.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 19 2019, @01:16PM
Where's the fun in that?
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday March 19 2019, @06:08PM
Define correctly.
Homeowner: I am asking to verify that you did correctly paint the porch with white paint and applied two coats.
Painter: Yes sir!
Homeowner: Here is your $50.
Painter: Thanks. And BTW, it wasn't a porch, it was a ferari.
Verification complete.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by Revek on Tuesday March 19 2019, @01:31PM (1 child)
Just ordered one or should I say pre ordered one. I'll bite with specs like 4gb of ram and USB 3.0 with Pi compatible addons. Sounds like a win win as long as the support for it really materializes.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 19 2019, @02:18PM
Knowing Nvidia, I expect this board will be unusable due to a lack of working drivers and source code.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by urza9814 on Tuesday March 19 2019, @04:33PM (1 child)
Yeah, when NVidia shows that they can actually provide proper support for Linux, I might consider buying an SBC from them. Specs might look nice, but they aren't gonna be so great if you have to run Windows on the thing to get proper compatibility...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 19 2019, @06:08PM
Lack of Linux support is a complete deal killer.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 19 2019, @06:07PM
what kind of shameless skank buys nvidia? especially for a dev board? oh, i see a dirty legged whore down below. shame, shame...