3 comments

  • gnabgib 59 minutes ago
    Previously (23 points, 6 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395786

    Including questions of LLM origin. Seems like the OP might have submitted that one (47431685) although there's another copy now (beyond this SCP entry from 3 days ago)

  • fwipsy 1 hour ago
    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.

  • smartbit 3 days ago
    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.

    • buildbot 2 hours ago
      It’s LLM slop and very shallow, in my opinion.
      • shotnothing 1 hour ago
        whats shallow about the research? it all seems to check out?
      • qwe----3 2 hours ago
        The blogpost?
        • pushfoo 1 hour ago
          ctrl-f for "This isn't" and note how many instances of this pattern there are:

          > This isn't X. It's Y.