Particle Launches Tachyon Single-Board Computer with Impressive Features

TapTechNews July 31st news, the IoT hardware company Particle launched a crowdfunding campaign for a single-board computer product named Tachyon. It has 4GB of memory and 64GB of UFS flash memory, and is compatible with the 40-pin GPIO interface of Raspberry Pi.

The board is only the size of a bank card and is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon QCM6490 processor, which can provide up to 12 TOPS of AI computing power and has built-in Wi-Fi 6E and 5G cellular network support. The crowdfunding price is $149 (TapTechNews note: currently about 1080 RMB).

For reference, the 4GB version of Raspberry Pi 5 costs $60 (currently about 435 RMB), and Particle Tachyon has more functions, but the price is also more than twice as expensive.

Particle positions Tachyon as a single-board computer for the Internet of Things or edge-to-cloud computing, supporting edge-side AI tasks (such as computer vision or machine learning applications), as well as Wi-Fi and cellular connections for easy communication with other devices in the cloud.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon QCM6490 processor is a 6nm processor, and TapTechNews attaches the following parameters:

1 Qualcomm Kryo670 Gold Plus CPU core @ 2.7GHz

3 Qualcomm Kryo670 Gold CPU cores @ 2.4GHz

4 Qualcomm Kryo670 Silver CPU cores @ 1.9GHz

Adreno 643 GPU @ 812MHz

6th generation Qualcomm AI engine NPU, with the highest AI performance of 12 TOPS

Wi-Fi 6E

Bluetooth 5.2

5G millimeter wave and sub-6GHz

Particle Tachyon single-board computer includes multiple interfaces:

1 USB 3.1 Type-C with DisplayPort Alt mode

1x PCIe Gen 3 x 2 (FPC connection)

1x MIPI-DSI 4-channel display input (maximum resolution 2520 x 1200)

2x CSI 4-channel camera input (maximum 25 MP)

Compatible with 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO interface