Intrinsyc Announces "Premium-Tier" Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 System-on-Module, Dev Kit
Compact 50mm x 25mm SOM, aimed at robotics and IoT projects, includes up to 6GB of RAM and 64GB of on-board storage.
Internet of Things specialist Intrinsyc has announced its latest system-on-module (SOM) design and corresponding development board, the Open-Q 845 µSOM, which it claims offers "premium-tier" performance thanks to an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU.
Measuring just 50mm x 25mm (around 1.96" x 0.98"), the Open-Q 845 µSOM boasts impressive specifications. At its heart is a 10nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 system-on-chip, originally developed for high-end mobile devices and featuring a Kryo 385 octa-core central processor — split, for power efficiency purposes, into four Gold cores running at up to 2.8GHz and four lower-power Silver cores running at 1.8GHz. A Qualcomm Adreno 630 graphics processor is joined by a Spectra 280 image signal processor, Hexagon 685 digital signal processor, and secure processing unit, plus the company's third-generation "Artificial Intelligence Engine" for edge-AI acceleration.
"We are excited to introduce this premium performance IoT computing module featuring ultra-fast computational power, support for variety of AI frameworks, advanced video and image processing capabilities, an integrated secure processing unit, and other trailblazing features," crows Cliff Morton, vice president of solutions engineering at Intrinsyc. "We will launch our development kit and SOM in the fourth quarter, 2019 and already have clients developing products with plans for commercial product launch in the first quarter, 2020."
The SOM also includes 4GB or 6GB of LPDDR4X memory in a package-on-package (POP) format, along with 32GB or 64GB of UFS flash storage. Network connectivity includes Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac dual-band support on a 2x2 MU-MIMO basis, along with Bluetooth 5.
Hardware interfaces include DisplayPort 1.4 via a USB Type-C connector, two four-lane Display Serial Interface (DSI) ports with 4k 10-bit video at 60 frames per second, three four-lane Camera Serial Interface (CSI) and one two-lane CSI ports, a dedicated audio DSP, SLIMBus or multi-channel I2S digital audio interfaces, two USB 3.1 ports, one USB 2.0 debug UART, one SDIO four-bit interface, and one PCI Express Gen. 3 one-lane interface.
In short, it's a bit of a beast — but all that power is likely to come at a cost. With its launch to follow later this year, Intrinsyc has not yet put a dollar cost on the SOM nor on the development board - but it is taking registrations for further updates on the official product page.