Today at GTC 2019 Nvidia launched a brand new member of the Jetson household: The new Jetson Nano. The Jetson household of merchandise represents Nvidia new deal with robotics, AI and autonomous machine functions. A number of months again we had the pleasure to have a excessive degree evaluate of the Jetson AGX in addition to the Xavier chip that powers it.
The largest concern of the AGX dev equipment was its pricing – with a retail worth of $1299, it’s massively out of vary of most hobbyist customers equivalent to our readers.
The new Jetson Nano addresses the associated fee concern in a fairly dramatic method. Here Nvidia guarantees to ship an identical degree of performance than its costlier Jetson merchandise, at a a lot lower cost level, and naturally at a decrease efficiency level.
The Jetson Nano is a full blown single-board-computer within the type of a module. The module form-factor and connector is SO-DIMM and is just like previous Nvidia modules by the corporate. The purpose of the form-factor is to have probably the most compact form-factor potential, as it’s envisioned for use in all kinds of functions the place a potential buyer will design their very own connector boards finest match for his or her design wants.
At the center of the Nano module we discover Nvidia’s “Erista” chip which additionally powered the Tegra X1 within the Nvidia Shield in addition to the Nintendo Switch. The variant used within the Nano is a cut-down model although, because the four A57 cores solely clock as much as 1.43GHz and the GPU solely has half the cores (128 versus 256 within the full X1) energetic. The module comes with 4GB of LPDDR4 and a 16GB eMMC module. The standalone Jetson Nano module to be used in COTS manufacturing might be obtainable to events for $129/unit in portions of 1000.
Naturally, as a result of you possibly can’t do a lot with the module itself, Nvidia additionally provides the Jetson Nano within the type of an entire pc: The Jetson Nano Developer Kit. Among some great benefits of the Kit is vastly higher {hardware} capabilities in comparison with competing options, such because the efficiency of the SoC or just higher connectivity equivalent to four USB full (3x 2.0 + 1x 3.0) ports, HDMI, DisplayPort and a Gigabit Ethernet port, together with the standard SDIO, I2C, SPI, GPIO and UART connectors you’re used to on such boards. One even finds a M.2 connector for extra WiFi in addition to a MIPI-CSI interface for cameras.
Jetson AGX Dev Kit vs Jetson Nano Dev Kit
Jetbot with Jetson Nano Dev Kit vs Jetson Nano Dev Kit
The Jetson Nano Development Kit might be had for under $99. One method Nvidia reaches this worth is thru the omission of on-board storage, and the equipment is pushed purely by microSD card. Availability begins as we speak.
We have the Jetson Nano in-house and can seeing what enjoyable issues Nvidia cooked up for us quickly!
