At an industry event in Austin, Thundercomm has announced RUBIK Pi, the first Pi built on Qualcomm SoC platforms for developers. RUBIK Pi is a tool that aims to lower the barriers 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, IoT product and solution 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 utilises the Qualcomm QCS6490 processor, delivering 12.5 TOPS of AI inference performance and support for a 1.8 billion-parametre LLM. With Qualcomm AI Hub, developers can explore cutting-edge tools that allow developer to download pre-optimised AI models or optimise their custom model to get the best performance from the SoC
RUBIK Pi 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.
“We’re excited to see Thundercomm launch RUBIK Pi. It’s the first Pi product built on the Qualcomm SoC platform, supporting Qualcomm Linux and Android, Windows and Ubuntu,” said Manvinder Singh, the VP, product management, partner solutions, developer experience, industrial and embedded IoT at Qualcomm Technologies. “It has a rich set of IO interfaces and delivers unrivaled compute and AI performance to unleash developer creativity. With the support of Qualcomm Al Hub, developers will be able to quickly deploy optimised AI models on RUBIK Pi.”
Pier Zhang, the vice president of Thundercomm, said, “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.”
Preliminary orders of RUBIK Pi will be available at the beginning of November. For more information on RUBIK Pi, please visit the webpage.
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