Great research and write-up, maybe a bit too elaborate.

Will be interesting to see if a public outcry will happen once these boxes start arriving at those who funded the kickstarter.

Tl;Dr it's actually a CIX p1 + 32gb (similar to orange pi 6) and a "160TOPS" NPU accelerator with 48gb - attached via NVME. models will either have to fit in one pool or deal with shuttling data over m.2, the company has some optimizations regarding this but it's still a serious limitation.

There you go, two sentences without burying the lede.

Is it maybe competitive value anyways though? Even if you only think of the accelerators, 48gb+160TOPS seems comparable to some Strix Halo mini PCS with 64gb - lower memory bandwidth but a few hundred dollars cheaper. If they sold just the accelerator card for $800 or something that would be potentially very interesting.

Previously (23 points, 6 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395786

Including questions of LLM origin. Seems like the OP might have submitted that one (47431685) although there's another copy now (beyond this SCP entry from 3 days ago)