DeepComputing has introduced a successor for the world’s first third-party Framework Laptop computer 13 Mainboard, regardless of having launched it only a month in the past: the DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard II, designed with edge synthetic intelligence (AI) and enormous language fashions (LLMs) in thoughts.
“This DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC, aka the DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard II for Framework Laptop computer 13, allows native execution of enormous language fashions (LLMs), permitting AI functions to name native LLM APIs with out counting on cloud providers,” the corporate says of the gadget. “This ensures that customers keep full management over their information, enhancing safety and privateness. Key AI functions shall be supported on this method together with Media Participant, Developer IDE, Chatbox, Video and Audio AGI [Artificial General Intelligence], and extra, providing a seamless and highly effective AI improvement atmosphere.”
DeepComputing has introduced its second-generation Mainboard for Framework’s Laptop computer 13, packing eight RISC-V cores and a complete of fifty TOPS of compute for edge AI. (📷: DeepComputing)
The disclosing comes a month after the corporate launched its first-generation Laptop computer 13 Mainboard, constructed across the StarFive JH7110 system-on-chip. The corporate’s quieter on what’s powering its second-generation successor, stating solely that at its coronary heart is “a world-first RISC-V chiplet dual-die linked AI SoC” with eight of SiFive’s 64-bit out-of-order execution RISC-V cores and a neural coprocessor delivering a claimed 40 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of minimum-precision compute for on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence workloads.
The board’s different specs embrace compliance with the ratified RISC-V Vector Extensions (RVV) with a 512b-width vector processing unit, an unspecified 3D graphics processor with as much as two tera-operations per second (TOPS) of its personal compute, and help for as much as 64GB of LPDDR5 reminiscence. With all that, there is no shock to see DeepComputing positioning the single-board pc as superb for these seeking to experiment with synthetic intelligence know-how — together with massive language fashions (LLMs) and imaginative and prescient language fashions (LLMs) — domestically.
The disclosing comes only a month after DeepComputing launched the first-generation DC-ROMA Mainboard. (📷: DeepComputing)
As with its predecessor, the board is designed round Framework’s Mainboard specs — which means it is a drop-in substitute for present Mainboards in any mannequin of Framework Laptop computer 13, and likewise suitable with third-party desktop instances. It isn’t suitable, nevertheless, with Framework’s upcoming Desktop system, which itself targets on-device AI workloads however makes use of a brand new board design based mostly on the ITX type issue.
DeepComputing hasn’t introduced full pricing, however says the DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard II shall be launching within the third quarter of this yr beginning at $299 — with no phrase but on how a lot RAM that will get you. The corporate is accepting pre-orders on its product web page with a $9.90 deposit; the corporate can also be showcasing the gadget at Embedded World in Nuremberg this week at Corridor 5 Sales space 5-119.
