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May 25, 2026June 14, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Khadas Mind Graphics 2 review – A powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti eGPU dock for the Mind 2 mini PC

Earlier this month, I received the Khadas Mind 2 (Intel Core Ultra 7 155H) mini PC with two accessories connecting through the Mind Link (PCIe x8) connector: The Mind xPlay Display and Keyboard combo, and the Mind Graphics 2 dock, adding a range of interfaces and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU with 16GB of VRAM. After going through the specifications, an unboxing, and a partial teardown in the first part of the review, I tested the Mind xPlay using the Mind and Mind 2 mini PCs running Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04. I’ve now had time to test the Khadas Mind Graphics 2 dock with the Mind 2 mini PC running Windows 11, so I’ll report my experience with the NVIDIA GPU (3D graphics and AI), and test all features, including 2.5GbE networking, the built-in speakers, microphone array, and so on. A few gremlins and system info When […]

May 21, 2026May 21, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 3 Comments

reComputer RK3576/RK3588 Edge AI computers are supported by reComputer AI Lab one-click deployment platform

Seeed Studio has just launched the reComputer RK3576/RK3588 Edge AI computers designed for developers, embedded AI innovators, robotics, industrial AI, vision AI, local LLMs, and real-world edge deployment. Rockchip RK3576 and RK3588 computers are pretty common these days, and the Seeed Studio models offer triple video output, dual Ethernet (GbE or 2.5GbE), several USB ports, and M.2 expansion. But the most interesting part is probably the software with Armbian-based Linux OS and support for the reComputer AI Lab platform that enables one-click deployment of AI-accelerated computer vision, audio, and LLM/LVM demos. reComputer RK3576/RK3588 specifications: SoC (one or the other) Rockchip RK3576 Octa-core CPU – 4x Cortex-A72 cores at 2.2GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 cores at 1.8GHz GPU – ARM Mali-G52 MC3 GPU NPU – 6 TOPS (INT8) AI accelerator with support for INT4/INT8/INT16/BF16/TF32 mixed operations. VPU Video Decoder: H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1, and AVS2 up to 8K at 30fps or 4K at […]

May 1, 2026May 3, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 3 Comments

$4,290+ Unitree R1-A5 and R1-A7 humanoid robots features grippers or dexterous hands, fixed or wheeled base

Unitree has extended its R1 dual‑arm humanoid robot family with new R1-A5 and R1-A7 models, which can be fitted with 2-finger grippers or 3 or 5-finger dexterous hands, and attached to a fixed base or a wheeled base for indoor mobility. The new robots appear based on the low-cost Unitree R1 platform launched last year, which can dance, walk, run, perform kung-fu moves, and chat with users, but is otherwise not overly useful since it lacks dexterous hands. The R1-A5 and R1-A7 won’t be able to dance, since they don’t come with legs, but the upper body comes with a head and two arms equipped with grippers or dexterous hands, which could perform useful tasks in combination with binocular vision. Four new models are available with the following specifications: They mostly share the same specifications, but the R1-A7 has longer arms and adds 4 degrees of freedom (2 extra per […]

April 13, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 6 Comments

Linux 7.0 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 7.0 on LKML: The last week of the release continued the same “lots of small fixes” trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I’ve tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out. I suspect it’s a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the “new normal” at least for a while. Only time will tell. Anyway, this last week was a little bit of everything: networking (core and drivers), arch fixes, tooling and selftests, and various random fixes all over the place. Let’s keep testing, and obviously tomorrow the merge window for 7.1 opens. I already have four dozen pull requests pending – thank you to all the early people. Linus This follows the Linux 6.19 release about two months ago, which brought us PCIe link encryption and […]

April 13, 2026April 13, 2026 by Sponsored Post - 2 Comments

Homture Magic Frame smart photo display integrates generative AI and 60 GHz mmWave radar (Sponsored)

The Homture Magic Frame is the world’s first smart photo display that integrates generative AI video and a 60 GHz mmWave radar. Artificial intelligence transforms static photos into interactive, living windows of memory, while the 60 GHz radar detects a person’s presence within a 2-meter range. So when someone walks by, the frame’s AI model gives life to the character(s) in the photo to greet people or follow their movement with their gaze. Homture Magic Frame specifications: Storage 64GB local storage Unlimited cloud storage hosted on US-based AWS servers. Display – 10.1-inch Full HD (1920×1200) touchscreen display Wireless – Dual-band WiFi (2.4GHz / 5GHz) Sensor – 60 GHz mmWave radar AI features AI Photo-to-Video Magic – Generates multiple dynamic videos from a single photo Old Photo Restoration – Scans vintage physical photos, repairs fading, and animates them. Smart Motion Interaction – The frame can greet you or have characters look […]

March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 5 Comments

Select the right hardware for your local LLM deployment with this online guide

When it comes to deploying local LLMs, many people may think that spending more money will deliver more performance, but it’s far from reality. That’s why Sipeed created the “AI Agent Local LLM Inference Device Deployment Guide” hosted on the llmdev.guide website. The website lists common hardware with price, performance (tokens/s), power consumption, and more for various LLMs. If we take Qwen3.5 9B as an example, we can see that $4K+ hardware like NVIDIA DGX Spark or Apple Mac Studio M3 delivers about the same TPS as a machine equipped with a $260 Intel Arc B580 12GB GPU. If money is no object and you’d like the best performance, the NVIDIA GTX 5090 32GB makes the most sense. I reckon the price comparison is imperfect because some data points reflect the price of a complete system, while others only list the price of a graphics card. However, for Qwen 122B-A10B, […]

March 25, 2026March 28, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 6 Comments

Alibaba XuanTie C950 – A powerful, RVA23-compliant 64-bit RISC-V core for Edge AI computing

Xuantie C950 high performance 64-bit RISC-V CPU

Alibaba has introduced the XuanTie C950 high-performance, 64-bit multi-core CPU IP with an out-of-order superscalar microarchitecture, RVA23 profile compliant, and support for “all optional extensions” such as Vector Crypto, Zacas, and Zama16. The company also says the XuanTie C950 supports the proprietary XuanTie AME (Attached Matrix Extension) ISA and supports integration with the company’s XuanTie TPE (Tensor Processing Engine) IP. The new 64-bit RISC-V core will be found in SoCs with up to eight cores per cluster, targeting high-performance applications, such as cloud computing, edge computing, and AI computing. XuanTie C950 specifications: Architecture – RVA23 Profile Up to 8x cores clocked at 3.2 GHz; 22+/GHz Specint2006 base, or a score of around 70 at 3.2 GHz Pipeline – Superscalar out-of-order microarchitecture with 8-wide decode Floating Point – RISC-V F/D Extension Vector – RISC-V Vector Extension v1.0 with Vector Crypto support Matrix – XuanTie TPE coprocessor integration (AME v0.5) Hypervisor – […]

March 18, 2026March 18, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

PycoClaw – A MicroPython-based OpenClaw implementation for ESP32 and other microcontrollers

PycoClaw is a MicroPython-based platform for running AI agents on ESP32 and other microcontrollers that brings OpenClaw workspace-compatible intelligence to resource-constrained embedded devices. We had already covered the C-based Miniclaw for ESP32-S3 SoCs, the PycoClaw’s developer (Jonathan Peace) told CNX Software that it is a “full OpenClaw-compliant agent” that supports more LLM providers (OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, etc.), interfaces with not only Telegram, but also ScriptO Studio and WebRTC, and offers features like OTA updates, extensions, and battery-optimized operation. The table below compares PycoClaw to OpenClaw, Nanobot, PicoClaw, NullClaw, and MimiClaw. MimiClaw still offers the lowest footprint and highest efficiency, but PycoClaw appears to offer many more features, including improved GPIO support. It works on ESP32-S3 with at least 8MB flash and PSRAM, ESP32-P4, and should soon support Raspberry Pi RP2350 boards with PSRAM as well. PycoClaw can be installed on supported hardware through a “one-click install” using a compatible web […]