Hugging Face subsidiary Pollen Robotics has sold more than 10,000 units of its $399 Microduck robot within days of its August 27 pre-order launch, powered by Rockchip's Chinese RK3566 chip. The 25-cen…
PINE64 has paused production of its open-source hardware lineup, including the Quartz64, PineNote, and PinePhone Pro, due to an AI-driven shortage of advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity. The…
Rockchip's RK3588 SoC, found in boards like the Orange Pi 5 and Radxa Rock 5B starting at $75, can run local LLMs but is limited by memory bandwidth rather than its advertised 6-TOPS NPU, according to…
A new analysis of edge AI hardware reveals that TOPS (trillions of operations per second) is a poor predictor of large language model (LLM) performance, with memory capacity and bandwidth being the cr…
UBTech unveiled the U1 humanoid robot in Shenzhen on Tuesday, featuring silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from 119,800 yuan to 990,000 yuan. The robot is designed for domestic companionship, with…
Seeed Studio integrated a Hailo-8 M.2 AI accelerator with the reComputer RK3576, boosting YOLOv11n inference from 2.3 FPS to 28.1 FPS—a 12x performance increase—enabling real-time edge video analysis …
FriendlyElec released the NanoPi M6V2, an updated single-board computer with Rockchip's RK3588S SoC, 8 GB LPDDR5, a 6 TOPS NPU, and HDMI 2.1 supporting 8K/60Hz output. Priced at $172, the board target…