back to article Nvidia upgrades tiny Jetson Orin Nano dev kits for the holidays

Nvidia is bringing the AI hype home for the holidays with the launch of a tiny new dev board called the Jetson Orin Nano Super. Nvidia cheekily bills the board as the "most affordable generative AI supercomputer," though that might be stretching the term quite a bit. The dev kit consists of a system on module, similar to a …

  1. EvaQ
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    specs

    From the specs:

    NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 1024 CUDA cores and 32 tensor cores

    8GB 128-bit LPDDR5 102GB/s

    When I click on "Purchase Now" ... I get "This site can’t be reached"

    1. Empire of the Pussycat

      Re: specs

      'When I click on "Purchase Now" ... I get "This site can’t be reached"'

      It's probably an AI hallucination.

    2. David 132 Silver badge

      Re: specs

      Interesting. Works for me - I (in the US, FWIW) get links for purchasing it from Seeed, Arrow, and Sparkfun.

      Here's the links in case you're still having issues.

      Note that as I write this, all 3 distis report it as "out of stock".

      Seeed: https://www.seeedstudio.com/NVIDIAr-Jetson-Orintm-Nano-Developer-Kit-p-5617.html?nvid=em-945-13766-0005-000

      Sparkfun: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/22098?nvid=em-945-13766-0005-000

      Arrow: https://www.arrow.com/en/products/945-13766-0000-000/nvidia?nvid=em-945-13766-0005-000

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: specs

      Same here (Firefox on Linux), "Purchase Now" (at: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/nano-super-developer-kit/ ) sends me to https://store.nvidia.com/jetson/store/ and:

      "Secure Connection Failed"

      "the authenticity of the received data could not be verified"

      "Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem".

    4. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge

      Re: specs

      So much AI and processing power. Still can't get a "Buy Now" button to work.

  2. GNU Enjoyer

    The advertisement lacks some details

    Can it be used without proprietary software?

    Does it have digital handcuffs that stop you from replacing the proprietary software with free software?

    But I guess the answer is clearly "no" and "yes', since nvidia.

    1. doublelayer Silver badge

      Re: The advertisement lacks some details

      You could check these things. Let's take your questions out of order:

      "Does it have digital handcuffs that stop you from replacing the proprietary software with free software?"

      Good question. That kind of thing can be really annoying. The answer is: no. You can erase the firmware, which, unlike things like the Raspberry Pi, is a standard UEFI version, and write whatever you like in its place. You can also write any operating system you like to the boot media. There are docs for both. That means that, if you have software of your choosing which can handle the hardware, you can run it.

      "Can it be used without proprietary software?": Define used. I can take out the software they include and it looks like it will still run an OS of my choice, but not all the options of the GPU may be available to me depending on the status of open source drivers. I don't have a board, so I don't know the full list of things that only work with the ones they wrote. The license they have on the main components is not an open source license, but it is freer than you imagined. If I don't use that software, I can still do things with this board, so by that definition, yes it can be used. I might still be better off with a different board because why spend the extra money if I'm not going to use what I'm paying for?

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    They show some cool Jetson projects on their web page (worth a gander imho).

  4. Ben 56

    Memory crippling

    Great performance but only 8GB is a massive drawback. I want an AI server that can manage at least 16GB, many £100 Intel N100s manage this much RAM, so why can't I spend £500 and get a version of this with the extra RAM?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Memory crippling

      Maybe you're looking for a Jetson Orin NX rather than Orin Nano ... or even an AGX?

    2. Irongut Silver badge

      Re: Memory crippling

      If you insist on comparing apples and oranges then you're going to be disappointed.

      This is not a NUC or an AI server. This is a dev board, probably not designed for you.

  5. Roj Blake Silver badge

    An Appropriate Name

    There's a famous scene in The Jetsons where George Jetson takes a banknote out his wallet to hand over to his wife, and she nabs the whole wallet.

    I feel that Nvidia are doing something similar with their pricing

    1. NoneSuch Silver badge
      Headmaster

      Re: An Appropriate Name

      > I feel that Nvidia are doing something similar with their pricing

      They only sell what people are willing to buy at that cost. No one is holding a gun to the consumers heads.

  6. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Meh

    Overpriced maybe?

    Like just about everything else these days it seems. In general, I don't see anything really special.

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