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Mini Computers

Zotac's CM5-PICO Is the Smallest, Most Feature-Dense Raspberry Pi CM5 Mini PC Yet — ISE 2026 Debut

Zotac will unveil the CM5-PICO at ISE 2026 — a 114.8x76x31 mm passively cooled Raspberry Pi CM5 mini PC with dual 4K HDMI, USB-C, NVMe, an NPU slot, and the full HAT header inside an aluminum chassis.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 20, 20266 min read
Mini Computers

SpacemiT's K3 Pico-ITX SBC Goes Official — RVA23-Compliant RISC-V With 60 TOPS for Edge AI Builds

SpacemiT officially launched the K3 Pico-ITX SBC and K3-CoM260 SoM on May 11, 2026 — RVA23-compliant RISC-V boards with up to 60 TOPS of AI performance, 32GB LPDDR5, and 256GB UFS.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 16, 20266 min read
Mini Computers

DEEPX Drops the DX-AIPlayer — A 25 TOPS Intel N97 Mini PC Built for Real-Time Vision AI

DEEPX launched the DX-AIPlayer on May 14, 2026 — an ultra-compact edge AI mini PC pairing an Intel N97 SoC with the DX-M1 M.2 AI accelerator for 25 TOPS of vision inference at 1-5 watts.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 14, 20266 min read
Mini Computers

Firefly's AIBOX-K3 Lands May 12 — A $349 RISC-V Edge AI Mini PC Running 30B Local LLMs at 60 TOPS

Firefly launched the AIBOX-K3 Edge AI mini PC on May 12, 2026 — a fanless desktop chassis pairing the SpacemiT K3 octa-core RISC-V SoC with 60 TOPS of AI compute, starting at $349.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 13, 20267 min read
Mini Computers

Boardcon's PICOT536 SoM and EMT536 SBC Bring 2 TOPS Allwinner T536 Edge AI to Industrial Builds

Boardcon launched the PICOT536 system-on-module and EMT536 SBC on May 4, 2026, pairing the Allwinner T536 edge AI processor with up to 8GB LPDDR4X for industrial HMI and machine vision.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 11, 20266 min read
Mini Computers

AAEON's NIKY-2215-NX Brings 100 TOPS Jetson Orin NX to a 21.5-Inch AI Touch Panel PC

AAEON announced the NIKY-2215-NX on May 8, 2026 — a 21.5-inch Full HD AI touch panel PC powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX with up to 100 TOPS for industrial HMI and machine vision.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 10, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Arbor's ARES-2100 Fanless Box PC Packs 40 TOPS of Wildcat Lake Edge AI in 1U

Arbor's ARES-2100 fanless industrial box PC, announced May 8, 2026, brings 40 TOPS of combined Intel Wildcat Lake edge AI to machine vision and automation in a mil-spec 1U chassis.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 9, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Renesas RZ/V2H Robotics Dev Kit Packs 80 TOPS of Edge AI on a Single Pi-Style Board

Renesas launched its RZ/V2H Robotics Development Kit on May 5, 2026 — combining quad Cortex-A55 cores, dual real-time R8 cores, and an 80 TOPS DRP-AI3 accelerator on a single Raspberry Pi-style board for autonomous robotics.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 5, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Boardcon Tiny1126B Squeezes AI Vision Into a 34×30mm System-on-Module

Boardcon's new Tiny1126B shrinks its Rockchip RV1126B AI vision module to 34×30mm while adding USB 3.0 and more I/Os — targeting smart cameras, robots, and compact edge AI deployments.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 18, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Orange Pi Zero 3W Packs WiFi 6 and a 3 TOPS AI Engine Into a Raspberry Pi Zero Footprint

The Orange Pi Zero 3W measures just 65×30mm but delivers an octa-core Allwinner A733, 3 TOPS NPU, WiFi 6, and up to 16GB LPDDR5 — serious compute in a tiny single-board computer package.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 16, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Orange Pi AI Station: 176 TOPS of Edge AI in a Mini PC With Up to 96GB RAM

Orange Pi's AI Station packs 176 TOPS of AI computing power and up to 96GB unified RAM into compact form, outperforming Raspberry Pi 5 for serious edge AI inference workloads.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 16, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Apple Is Testing Four AI Smart Glasses Designs Ahead of 2027 Launch

Bloomberg reports Apple is testing four frame styles in premium acetate with oval cameras — bringing AI-on-device smart glasses to market in late 2026 or early 2027.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 14, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

AceMagic Retro X5 Review: An NES Shell Hiding a Copilot+ Powerhouse

The AceMagic Retro X5 puts AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and 55 TOPS of AI performance inside a retro NES-styled shell — and it benchmarks remarkably well.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 12, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Opens the Door to Generative AI at the Maker Workbench

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 packs 40 TOPS of on-device AI acceleration into the Pi 5 ecosystem, enabling local LLMs, vision models, and generative micro-apps.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 11, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Intel 'Wildcat Lake' Arrives in Production: Advantech Ships the First SBC on the New Platform

The Advantech MIO-5356 debuts as the first production SBC on Intel's 'Wildcat Lake' platform, with DDR5, 2.5GbE TSN, and triple-display support.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 10, 20264 min read
AI

PrismML's Bonsai Is a 1-Bit LLM That Runs on a Smartphone and Matches Full-Size Models

Caltech startup PrismML emerged from stealth with Bonsai, a 1-bit LLM family that's 14x smaller, 8x faster, and 5x more energy-efficient than standard 8B models — and runs on an iPhone.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 9, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Arduino Turns 21 With the Ventuno Q — A Dual-Brain SBC That Pairs Qualcomm AI With STM32 Motor Control for Robotics

Arduino's birthday board combines a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 running 40 TOPS of AI inference with a dedicated STM32H5 microcontroller for real-time actuation in a single platform.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 17, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Orange Pi's AI Station Packs a Huawei Ascend 310 With 96GB RAM and 176 TOPS Into a Single Board Computer

The Orange Pi AI Station pairs 10 dedicated AI cores with 16 CPU cores, up to 96GB LPDDR4X, and 256GB eMMC — delivering data-center-class AI inference on a 130mm board.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 16, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Orange Pi's AI Station Packs 176 TOPS of Edge AI Power Into a Single Board With Up to 96GB RAM

Built around a Huawei Ascend 310 SoC with 10 AI cores, the Orange Pi AI Station delivers over 13x the AI performance of a Raspberry Pi 5 with Hailo — on a single board.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 9, 20264 min read