Unveiled: NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super
NVIDIA has unveiled a generative AI supercomputer that everybody can afford. Its price has been slashed, its offerings have been enhanced, and aligned with modern transitions in the market. Meet NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ Nano Super. The software upgrade is all it takes for users to get started with the option of buying the NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ Nano Super developer kit.
The new compact generative AI supercomputer comes for $249. This is down from $499 for a device that can easily fit into someone’s palms. NVIDIA has, in its blog post, called the introduction of Nano Super a 1.7x leap in generative AI inference performance.
Its usage is not restricted to professionals but extends to anyone who wants to create giants like LLM chatbots or deploy AI-based robots. Users can be students, hobbyists, or commercial AI developers - they will be able to make the best of what features 67 INT8 TOPS performance. This is up by almost 70% along with a rough uptick of 50% in memory bandwidth. That stands at 102GB/s.
All that is in comparison to its predecessor.
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang, the Chief Executive Officer of NVIDIA, presented the NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ Nano Super through a video. He highlighted three core features of the generative AI supercomputer.
Capability to process 70 trillion operations per second.
Up to 25W power.
Affordable price of $249.
The CPU frequency has also been increased to 1.7 GHz.
Where do these numbers stand against the predecessor? AI performance in the older version is 40 TOPS, memory bandwidth is 68 GB/s, and CPU frequency is measured at 1.5 GHz. These are only the key parameters that have been underlined by NVIDIA in its details about the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit.
Software updates that follow will further boost the generative AI performance. NVIDIA is confident that it will be suitable for those who are interested in developing skills in generative AI, computer vision, or robotics.
A reason why there is hype around the compact generative AI supercomputer is that it aligns with the transition from task-specific models to foundational models while providing a platform that is accessible for transforming ideas into reality.
The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit that the company is offering consists of the 8GB SoM, or system-on-module, NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU with tensor cores, and finally a 6-core Arm CPU. The objective is to support multiple AI applications and high-performance inference.
NVIDIA bringing Jetson Orin Nano Super has contributed to the ongoing wave in the AI segment. However, its share prices tell a different story. NVIDIA’s share price is $130.39 while the article is being drafted, down by 1.22%. It is down by 6.96% in the last 30 days and 3.83% in the last 6 months. Many believe that a decline in the share price of NVIDIA is more in favor of correction.
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