AAEON's UP brand, a leading designer and manufacturer of industrial development boards, today announced its collaboration with DEEPX, a pioneer in producing power-efficient yet sophisticated AI acceleration modules. The partnership will see multiple models from UP's Development Kit and Mini PC series utilize DEEPX's innovative DX-M1 AI chip to satisfy market demand for ultra-low power, compact, and AI-ready edge platforms upon which customers can build new, innovative industrial automation solutions.

Designed to bring GPU-class AI model execution at just 2 W-5 W, DEEPX's DX-M1 AI chip is particularly well-suited for integration with the UP brand's portfolio of small form factor products, given the module's low power footprint and innovative thermal management. The first UP products to be equipped with the DX-M1 chip will be the recently-released UP Squared Pro TWL and UP Xtreme ARL Development Kits, granting the platforms a boost of 25 TOPs of AI performance alongside preinstalled Linux Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS with the UP AI Software Suite and NPU driver.