Embedded computing specialist AAEON has introduced the approaching launch of a Raspberry Pi-like single-board laptop with a distinction: it is powered by a alternative of three Intel x86-64 processors and as much as 8GB of LPDDR5 reminiscence.
“The UP 7000 boasts quite a few upgrades in comparison with its predecessors,” AAEON claims of its newest design, “together with 8GB of LPDDR5 system reminiscence, onboard TPM [Trusted Platform Module] 2.0, and help for each Home windows and Linux OS. Most notably, it stands out because the world’s smallest board that includes onboard CPUs from the Intel Processor N-series platform.”
AAEON’s newest single-board laptop packs in as much as 4 x86-64 cores and 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM. (📷: AAEON)
The shape issue of the brand new board household, delivered to our consideration by Liliputing, can be instantly acquainted: it mimics the Raspberry Pi vary, all the way down to a appropriate 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header to the highest edge. It isn’t a slavish copy, although: the one connector to the decrease edge is a DC jack for energy, with the HDMI video output moved to the right-hand edge beneath one of many board’s three USB 3.2 Gen. 2 ports and subsequent to a gigabit Ethernet port.
Actual specs differ from mannequin to mannequin, with three selections of Intel Alder Lake processor. The Intel Processor N50 mannequin affords two cores working at as much as 3.4GHz increase frequency in a 6W thermal design profile (TDP) with 4GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage; the N97 mannequin doubles this to 4 cores working as much as 3.6GHz in a 12W TDP and with 8GB of RAM and 64GB of storage; and the N100 sits between the 2 with 4 cores at a slower 3.4GHz however a 6W TDP, dropping again to 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.
The boards mimic the Raspberry Pi kind issue, full with appropriate GPIO header. (📷: AAEON)
Elsewhere on the board is a ten-pin header carrying two USB 2.0 ports and a UART serial bus, a connector for a 12V fan, one other for a battery for the board’s real-time clock, and a four-pin entrance panel connector. General, AAEON says the boards can draw as much as 36W beneath a typical load — which explains the DC jack, there to ship 12V of energy at as much as 5A.
AAEON has not but publicly introduced pricing for the boards, which it says will seem within the channel within the coming days; extra info, nevertheless, is out there on the corporate web site.
