Jetson AGX Orin developer kit increases OPS for robotics and edge AI
At GTC 2022, Nvidia has announced the Jetson AGX Orin developer kit, claiming it is the most powerful, compact and energy-efficient AI supercomputer available for advanced robotics, autonomous machines, and next-generation embedded and edge computing.
Jetson AGX Orin delivers 275 trillion operations per second, (OPS) exceeding its the processing power of its predecessor (Jetson AGX Xavier) by a factor of eight, while maintaining the same palm-sized form factor and pin compatibility. It is also offered at “a similar price”. The developer kit features an Nvidia Ampere architecture GPU, Arm Cortex-A78AE CPUs, next-generation deep learning and vision accelerators, high speed interfaces, faster memory bandwidth and multi-modal sensor support to feed multiple, concurrent AI application pipelines.
“As AI transforms manufacturing, healthcare, retail, transportation, smart cities and other essential sectors of the economy, demand for processing continues to surge,” said Deepu Talla, vice president of Embedded and Edge Computing at Nvidia. “The availability of Jetson AGX Orin will supercharge the efforts of the entire industry as it builds the next generation of robotics and edge AI products.”
Customers using Jetson AGX Orin can leverage the full Nvidia CUDA-X accelerated computing stack, the Nvidia JetPack software development kit (SDK), pre-trained models from the company’s NGC catalogue and the latest frameworks and tools for application development and optimisation such as Isaac on Omniverse, Metropolis and the TAO Toolkit. According to Nvidia, this ecosystem reduces time and cost for production-quality AI deployments, and offers access to the largest, most complex models needed to solve robotics and edge AI challenges in 3D perception, natural language understanding or multi-sensor fusion.
The Jetson embedded computing partner ecosystem includes a range of services and products, including cameras and other multi-modal sensors, carrier boards, hardware design services, AI and system software, developer tools and custom software development.
The Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin developer kit is available now. Production modules will be available in Q4.
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