An ultra-low-power neural processing unit from DeepX, a South Korean artificial intelligence chip company, has been featured in the official newsroom of Raspberry Pi, the global single-board computing platform. The chip drew attention for running image recognition and language AI on roughly 3 watts of power.
DeepX said on the 16th that Raspberry Pi had featured the technology and use cases of the Sixfab AI HAT+, an AI accelerator board built around the company's DX-M1M NPU, in its official newsroom. DeepX launched the product jointly with Sixfab in June. Raspberry Pi is a British single-board computer brand and a computing platform widely used by developers worldwide for software development, experiments in AI and robotics, and building industrial devices.
The DX-M1M can perform up to 25 trillion AI operations per second, and the NPU itself draws about 3 watts under typical continuous operation. That allows even small devices to run AI functions such as detecting objects in video, assessing a situation or interpreting user commands.
A leading use case is camera-based monitoring of industrial sites. The chip can be applied to systems that detect printing errors on 3D printers and explain the problem to users, or that spot quality defects on production lines. Because the AI runs directly on the device, it reduces reliance on communication with external servers.
DeepX provides software and other tools so that developers can take AI models built on Raspberry Pi and deploy them in commercial industrial products. The company currently sells the 25-trillion-operations-per-second version and plans to release a 13-TOPS version by the end of the year.
"We will support the full development environment — from semiconductors and software through mass production — so that a small experiment that starts on a Raspberry Pi can become a product sold in global markets," a DeepX official said.