News Particle launches Tachyon, a Snapdragon powered single-board computer with its own AI accelerator

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Particle, well known to innovative businesses for its IoT platform-as-a-service, is launching an extremely powerful SBC with 5G connectivity and an on-board AI accelerator.

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I found these specs on the SoC, in a review of a phone that uses it:

"Its Kryo 670 CPU was first introduced in 2021’s flagship Snapdragon 780G and has powered a small selection of other mid-range smartphone chips. The CPU cluster comprises one Cortex-A78 core at 2.71GHz, three Cortex-A78s at 2.4Ghz, and four low-power Cortex-A55 cores at 1.96GHz."

Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/fairphone-5-benchmarks-3362975/
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Okay, so expect a decent bit more performance than a Raspberry Pi 5. Maybe around 2x the multithreaded performance of Pi 5. On single-threaded, looks like it could be about 50% faster, assuming each SoC is running at stock clock speeds.

Here's more on A78 performance:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15813/arm-cortex-a78-cortex-x1-cpu-ip-diverging/4
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The most disappointing aspect of this product is definitely the 4 GiB of RAM. That's certainly enough for many embedded applications, but you'd really want boards with such a powerful SoC and 8 cores to support far more. There should absolutely be 8 GB and 16 GB options, IMO.

Also, I hope the PCIe interface is 3.0. With only 2 lanes, that would be adequate for decent SSD performance, not to mention if you bifurcate them and use only x1 for SSD.