NVIDIA's Jetson dwarf computer series is commonly used to facilitate the installation of artificial intelligence systems in various types of products such as robots, drones, cameras, etc. and comes in a compact design even though it houses powerful computing components.
The Jetson Orin Nano is NVIDIA's latest product in the series, and now it looks like a Raspberry Pi circuit board, but houses upgraded internal components compared to the previously introduced Jetson Orin computer.
The Orin Nano is seen using an Ampere graphics processing chip with 1024 CUDA cores compared to the 128 CUDA cores on the Maxwell processing chip used in the previous model.
The use of the Ampere chip is seen to provide an 80 times increase in artificial intelligence performance when the Jetson Orin Nano is compared to the previous model, especially when this new model also comes with 32 Tensor cores.
Other components housed in this computer include 8GB of LPDDR5 memory, support for microSD storage as well as SSD NVMe M.2, and lower power consumption at 7W up to 15W.
In terms of plug support, the Jetson Orin Nano is equipped with four USB 3.2 plugs, a Gigabit Ethernet plug, a DisplayPort 1.2 plug and support for 802.11ac WiFi connectivity.
NVIDIA confirmed that the Jetson Orin Nano computer can already be pre-ordered in selected markets at a price of $499 and will be launched in April 2023.