AXION N1 · Edge inference module
Inference at the edge,
in 14.6 millimetres.
94 TOPS of INT8 in a fanless milled-aluminium shell the size of a passport. No enclosure. No airflow budget. No moving parts.
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02 — Thermal path
The whole shell is the heatsink.
A 26-fin skived copper coldplate sits directly on the die, tied to the aluminium lid through two 4 mm heatpipes. Heat leaves by convection through the vent array — never by a fan.
- Sustained
- 18 W
- Ambient
- 45 °C
- Acoustic
- 0 dB
03 — The die
Seven nanometres, on aluminium nitride.
The NPU is mounted on an AlN substrate rather than the usual organic laminate — 170 W/m·K, roughly nine times the thermal conductivity, so heat reaches the copper instead of pooling under the package.
2 048 MAC array · 94 TOPS INT8 · 47 TFLOPS FP16
04 — Serviceability
Eleven parts. Four screws. One swap.
The accelerator is a standard M.2 2280 card in a real socket, not a soldered package. When a faster part ships, the chassis, the board and the thermal stack all stay in the rack.
- Board
- 8-layer
- Swap time
- 90 s
- Tooling
- T6 only
05 — At scale
Forty nodes. Four rack units.
Because nothing needs airflow clearance, the modules stack on passive sleds — ten across, four deep. That is 3.7 petaOPS in the space a single GPU server would occupy, drawing 720 W.
- Per 4U
- 40 nodes
- Aggregate
- 3.7 POPS
- Draw
- 720 W
- Uplink
- 2.5 GbE ×2
Available Q3
Put one on the bench.
Evaluation units ship with the SDK, a PoE++ injector and a 30-day return. No procurement call required.
Specification
AXION N1
Compute
- NPU
- 7 nm, 2 048 MAC array
- INT8
- 94 TOPS
- FP16
- 47 TFLOPS
- Memory
- 32 GB LPDDR5X, 136 GB/s
Thermal
- Cooling
- Passive — 26-fin skived C110 coldplate
- Fin pitch
- 0.62 mm
- Substrate
- Aluminium nitride, 170 W/m·K
- Sustained
- 18 W at 45 °C ambient, no throttle
Physical
- Dimensions
- 84 × 62 × 14.6 mm
- Mass
- 214 g
- Chassis
- 6061-T6, bead-blasted, anodised
- Mounting
- 2 × M3 ears, VESA 40 adapter
Interface
- Network
- 2 × 2.5 GbE, PoE++ (802.3bt)
- Accelerator
- M.2 2280, field-replaceable
- Board
- 8-layer, buried via, 2 oz copper
- Power
- 18 W sustained, 34 W peak