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