Pine64 ALPHA-ONE is now available (Fanless RISC-V PC with a 20 TOPS NPU)

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Pine64’s ALPHA-ONE is a small fanless computer designed for AI. It has an NPU that delivers up to 20 TOPS of INT8 performance and Pine64 says it supports about 4 tokens per second of throughput when running a large language model with 7 billion parameters.

While those specs lag behind the AI performance offered by PCs with the latest Intel or AMD chip, the ALPHA-ONE stands out because it’s powered by an ESWin EIC7700X RISC-V processor. First introduced in May, the ALPHA-ONE is now available for purchase for $330.

In some ways this isn’t an entirely new device: inside the computer’s case is a StarPro64 single-board PC that was introduced last year. But the ALPHA-ONE adds a heat pipe and case for passive cooling, a 12V/3A power supply, and a 64GB eMMC module that comes with a 7b Deepseek/Owen LLM pre-installed.

Folks who’d prefer to build their own system can still pay $250 for a StarPro64 single-board computer.

Both systems feature:

4 x SiFive P550 RISC-V CPU cores & 1.8 GHz
Imagination AXM-8-256G GPU
20 TOPS NPU
32GB LPDDR5 memory
128Mb SPI boot flash
PCIe 3.0 x4 slot
2 x USB 3.0 Type-A
2 x USB 2.0 Typ-A
2 x Gigabit Ethernet
1 x microSD card reader
GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C, MIPI-DSI, and MIPI-CSI connectors
WiFi 6
Bluetooth 5.3

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