Good news for AI developers and hobbyists: Nvidia just made it a lot cheaper to build AI-powered robots, drones, smart cameras and other gadgets that need a brain. The company’s new Jetson Orin Nano Super, announced Tuesday and available now, packs more processing muscle than its predecessor while costing half as much at $249.
The palm-sized computer delivers a 70% performance boost, reaching 67 trillion operations per second for AI tasks. That’s a significant jump from earlier models, especially for powering things like chatbots, computer vision, and robotics applications.
“This is a brand new Jetson Nano Super. Almost 70 trillion operations per second, 25 watts and $249,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an official video reveal from his kitchen. “It runs everything the HGX does, it even runs LLMs.”
Memory bandwidth also got a major upgrade, increasing to 102 gigabytes per second, 50% faster than the previous generation of the Jetson. This improvement means the device can handle more complex AI models and process data from up to four cameras simultaneously.
The device comes with Nvidia’s Ampere architecture GPU and a 6-core ARM processor, allowing it to run multiple AI applications at once. This gives developers the potential to work with more varied competences, like building small models for robots capable of things like mappin…
