Priced at $249 (down from $499), the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit is the ideal holiday gift for hobbyists, students, and commercial developers. This compact yet powerful device packs GenAI capabilities into a palm-sized form. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduced the kit in a video from his new house, humorously recalling an earlier version of the robotics processor.
Enhanced Performance and Versatility of the Jetson Orin Nano for Edge AI Applications
The new version of the Jetson Orin Nano provides a notable performance upgrade, featuring 67 Sparse TOPS (up from 40) and 33 Dense TOPS, along with enhanced memory bandwidth of 102GB/s (up from 68GB/s). This makes it perfect for a variety of applications, such as developing large language model (LLM) chatbots, creating visual AI agents, and deploying AI-driven robots. The kit comes with an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano system-on-module (SoM) and a reference carrier board, offering a robust platform for prototyping edge AI applications.
Powered by NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture GPU with tensor cores and a six-core Arm CPU, the SoM enables efficient parallel processing for AI tasks. It also supports NVIDIA’s AI software, including Isaac for robotics, Metropolis for vision AI, and Holoscan for sensor processing, further enhancing its versatility.
Jetson Orin Nano: A Gateway to NVIDIA’s Ecosystem Amid Growing AI Competition
This developer kit has the potential to become a gateway to NVIDIA’s ecosystem, fostering the next generation of developers and engineers, much like Apple did with its Macintosh developers in the 1980s and ’90s. Its release follows closely behind Amazon’s announcement of Project Rainier, a powerful AI supercomputer set for completion by 2025, underscoring the increasing competition in the AI hardware market.
