AAEON's New UP Squared Pro 710H Packs a Hailo-8 Chip for High-Performance On-Device Edge AI
Compact yet powerful board packs a choice of Intel Alder Lake-N processors and a 26 TOPS Hailo-8 neural coprocessor.
Embedded computer specialist AAEON has announced the latest entry in its UP Squared range of single-board computers, the UP Squared Pro 710H — a device aimed squarely at edge artificial intelligence (edge AI) workloads, featuring an Intel Alder Lake-N processor paired with a Hailo-8 accelerator.
"The UP Squared Pro 710H Edge combines the edge AI functionality of the Hailo-8 edge AI processor with the power-efficient operation of the Intel Processor N-series," AAEON claims of its latest launch, "providing a streamlined deployment platform for a range of versatile market solutions. Optimized connectivity options, multiple display outputs, and wireless expansion offer multifaceted interface configurations with which to curate project-driven applications, while purpose-built drivers grant access to Hailo's software suites for [Canonical] Ubuntu and [Microsoft] Windows to facilitate development, all in one place."
The device, brought to our attention by Liliputing, is built around the buyer's choice of Intel Processor N97 or Core i3-N305 processor, offering four cores running at up to 2GHz or eight cores running at up to 1.8GHz respectively and with Intel UHD Graphics on-board, with an Atom x7000RE promised but not yet specified.
The processor is paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 memory, up to 128GB of eMMC storage, and M.2 M-key expansion for NVMe drives. There are HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.2 outputs, a MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI) connector, two USB 3.2 Gen. 2 Type-A ports with two USB 2.0 ports available on a ten-pin header alongside two RS232/422/485 serial ports, twin 2.5-gigabit-Ethernet ports, an M.2 E-key and optional M.2 B-key USB slot, and a 40-pin general-purpose input/output (GPIO) header.
It's the accelerator that makes the UP Squared Pro 710H stand out from the crowd, though: an on-board Hailo-8 chip, delivering a claimed 26 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of INT8-precision compute for on-device machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision workloads. It's the same chip as chosen by Raspberry Pi for its top-end AI HAT+ accessory for the Raspberry Pi 5 — but here teamed with an AMD64 processor rather than Arm cores.
For those wanting an all-in-one solution, AAEON has also unveiled the UP Squared Pro 710H Edge, which puts the single-board computer into a passively-cooled industrial-style housing and brings out an RS232/422/485 port front and rear, the 40-pin GPIO header, and adds a physical power button.
More information on all models is available on the AAEON website; pricing and availability have not yet been announced.