AAEON's UP brand, renowned for producing sophisticated developer boards with industrial-grade specifications, has announced the release of the UP 7000, the third generation of boards built on the 85 mm x 56 mm form factor of the original UP Board. The UP 7000 boasts numerous upgrades compared to its predecessors, including 8 GB of LPDDR5 system memory, onboard TPM 2.0, and support for both Windows and Linux OS. Most notably, it stands out as the world's smallest board featuring onboard CPUs from the Intel Processor N-series platform.

The board is available in various SKUs, hosting Intel Processor N97, Intel Processor N100, or Intel Processor N50 CPUs. Notably, these processors offer clock speeds up to 50% faster than those of previous boards from the same product line, and also support Intel AVX2 for energy-efficient AI acceleration. Equipped with three USB Type-A ports for USB 3.2 Gen 2, one GbE LAN port supporting Realtek RTL8111H CG, and a Raspberry Pi-compatible 40-pin HAT for expansion, the UP 7000 provides a dense port configuration. This makes it ideal for applications requiring low latency but versatile connectivity, such as AMR and multifunction printing device solutions.

The next-generation of UP Board, a credit card-sized SBC (single board computer) was unveiled, revealing a mighty SoC at the helm, the Intel Pentium Silver, Celeron, or Atom "Apollo Lake." The UP 4000 is suitable for most embedded system projects in which you require the x86-64 machine architecture. Competing SBCs tend to be based on Arm or RISC-V architectures. The 85 mm x 56 mm board puts out an Ethernet interface, three 5 Gbps USB 3.0 ports, a type-C USB 3.0 port, and an HDMI display output, besides GPIO. The SoC is hardwired to 8 GB of single-channel DDR4 memory, 64 GB of eMMC storage, Available now for pre-order, the UP Board starts at $116.