AI Inference Made Accessible with New Development Board

RUBIK Pi is an innovative development board that aims to lower the barriers to application development with AI inference, allowing developers to access high-performance, easy-to-deploy AI R&D tools. The Pi product is a must-have for electronics enthusiasts and developers. It can be seen as a microcomputer, integrating a processor, memory, storage, and various interfaces on a credit card-sized board. Thundercomm, a world-leading IoT provider, building on its expertise in ICT technologies and developer workflows, launched RUBIK Pi, aiming to create the most user-friendly AI R&D tools.

RUBIK Pi utilizes the Qualcomm® QCS6490 processor, delivering 12.5 TOPS of AI inference performance and support for a 1.8 billion-parameter LLM. With Qualcomm® AI Hub, developers can explore cutting-edge tools that allow developers to download pre-optimized AI models or optimize their custom model to get the best performance from the SoC. The board supports Qualcomm® Linux®, Android, and Windows, ensuring broad operating system compatibility. It also features upward compatibility with Thundercomm's C8550 SOM and downward compatibility with the C5430P SOM, providing robust scalability for developers.

The development board boasts rich interfaces and functions and is compatible with a variety of Raspberry Pi peripheral accessories, which helps reduce implementation difficulty and cost for developers. "RUBIK Pi is the first Pi product built on the Qualcomm® SoC platform, supporting Qualcomm® Linux® and Android, Windows, and Ubuntu," said Manvinder Singh, VP, Product Management, Partner Solutions, Developer Experience, Industrial and Embedded IoT at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "It has a rich set of IO interfaces and delivers unrivaled compute and AI performance to unleash developer creativity. With the support of Qualcomm® AI Hub, developers will be able to quickly deploy optimized AI models on RUBIK Pi."

"RUBIK Pi is a lightweight development board that is not only easy to use and is low cost but also holds significant ESG value. By making AI application development accessible to beginners, it promotes AI education, enhances technological literacy, and fosters social equity," said Pier Zhang, Vice President of Thundercomm. Preliminary orders of RUBIK Pi will be available at the beginning of November.

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