AAEON, a leading producer of industrial motherboards, has announced the release of the MIX-Q870A1, a sophisticated Mini-ITX motherboard supporting up to 65 W Intel Core Ultra 200S Series LGA 1851 socket-type processors (formerly Arrow Lake). Compatible with a broad selection of SKUs from the second generation of Intel Core Ultra processor range, the MIX-Q870A1 can leverage the platform's integrated NPU and Xe LPG Graphics for AI acceleration for a total of 36 TOPS alongside optimized multitasking and multicore performance.
A particularly notable inclusion among the MIX-Q870A1's specifications is its 16-lane PCIe Gen 5 slot with bifurcation, which can be split into x16, x8/x8, or x8/x4/x4 configurations through a dedicated jumper. This addition provides a modular foundation for the installation of expansion cards based on project need, meaning that even when equipped with a GPU to bolster the AI acceleration offered by the board's Intel Core Ultra platform, the remaining lanes of its PCIe slot can be used to accommodate additional modules like NVMe SSDs, NICs, frame grabbers, or field bus interface cards.