AAEON Releases the BOXER-8251AI AI Edge Box PC

By Perry Cohen

Associate Editor

Embedded Computing Design

July 21, 2020

Blog

AAEON announced the release of the BOXER-8251AI AI edge box PC powered by NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier™ NX.

AAEON announced the release of the BOXER-8251AI AI edge box PC powered by NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier™ NX.

The BOXER-8251AI features a six-core 64-bit ARM processor, 384 CUDA cores, 48 tensor cores, and two NVIDIA engines fore running multiple neural networks in parallel. All in all, these features combined deliver computing performance of up to 21 TOPS.

As far as storage goes, the system contains 8GB of LPDDR4 memory and 16GB of onboard eMMC memory, which can be expanded through the Micro-SD card slot.

“With the BOXER-8251AI powered by NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX, users and developers have even greater freedom to select the kind of performance they need for their projects and applications,” said senior director of AAEON’s System Platform Division Alex Hsueh, in a press release. “Thanks to this flexibility, the BOXER-8251AI is able to power a wide range of AI and edge computing applications from Smart City environments to monitoring public transportation users for fever and compliance with face mask requirements.”

Further, it comes equipped with I/O features that include two COM ports, four USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, and a Gigabit Ethernet port, all in a compact size.

For more information, visit www.aaeon.com.

Perry Cohen, associate editor for Embedded Computing Design, is responsible for web content editing and creation, podcast production, and social media efforts. Perry has been published on both local and national news platforms including KTAR.com (Phoenix), ArizonaSports.com (Phoenix), AZFamily.com, Cronkite News, and MLB/MiLB among others. Perry received a BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State university.

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