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I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos

20 pointsby davidklemkelast Thursday at 4:56 AM5 commentsview on HN

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fwipsytoday at 1:38 AM

Tl;Dr it's actually a CIX p1 + 32gb (similar to orange pi 6) and a "160TOPS" NPU accelerator with 48gb - attached via NVME. models will either have to fit in one pool or deal with shuttling data over m.2, the company has some optimizations regarding this but it's still a serious limitation.

There you go, two sentences without burying the lede.

Is it maybe competitive value anyways though? Even if you only think of the accelerators, 48gb+160TOPS seems comparable to some Strix Halo mini PCS with 64gb - lower memory bandwidth but a few hundred dollars cheaper. If they sold just the accelerator card for $800 or something that would be potentially very interesting.

smartbitlast Friday at 2:10 AM

Great research and write-up, maybe a bit too elaborate.

Will be interesting to see if a public outcry will happen once these boxes start arriving at those who funded the kickstarter.

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