
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"
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 …
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
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".
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?
They show some cool Jetson projects on their web page (worth a gander imho).
Maybe you're looking for a Jetson Orin NX rather than Orin Nano ... or even an AGX?