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Tl;Dr it's actually a CIX p1 + 32gb (similar to orange pi 6) and a "160TOPS" NPU accelerator with 48gb - attached via NVME. models will either have to fit in one pool or deal with shuttling data over m.2, the company has some optimizations regarding this but it's still a serious limitation.

There you go, two sentences without burying the lede.

Is it maybe competitive value anyways though? Even if you only think of the accelerators, 48gb+160TOPS seems comparable to some Strix Halo mini PCS with 64gb - lower memory bandwidth but a few hundred dollars cheaper. If they sold just the accelerator card for $800 or something that would be potentially very interesting.

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As SBC hardware goes, CIX P1 is actually pretty respectable. It uses modern-ish ARM cores when everyone else are using something from 10 years ago. So performance is pretty good:

https://wp.pureprogrammer.org/2025/12/20/comparison-of-orang...

But yeah, this should have been priced like 2x of a maxed out Raspberry Pi 5.