ASUS Adds UGen300 Edge AI Accelerator With 40 TOPS And A Cheaper UGen200
ASUS is pricing local generative AI hardware below 50,000 yen and shipping it in both USB and M.2 form factors, which moves LLM and vision inference on site instead of through a cloud subscription.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
ASUS JAPAN announced four products for local AI processing: the UGen300 series of edge AI accelerators and a cost-focused UGen200. Sales begin October 16. The USB and M.2 models run from 24,980 yen to 49,800 yen, with the flagship UGen300 at up to 40 TOPS on the Hailo-10H chipset and the UGen200 at up to 13 TOPS on the Hailo-8L.
The four products split by connection type rather than by generation. The UGen300 USB AI Accelerator uses USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C and plugs into a notebook or compact PC; the UGen300 M2 AI Module and UGen200 M2 are internal cards for M.2 2280 slots, aimed at cable-free installation in embedded devices.
ASUS pitches the UGen300 for workloads where cloud dependence should be minimized and latency matters, and the UGen200 for object detection, image classification and person tracking at low cost. Windows, Linux, and Android for B2B are supported alongside x86 and ARM architectures, with more than 150 pre-trained models and sample code available through UGen Utility and GitHub.
- S-UGEN300-8GLD4-TC: 49,800 yen
- UGEN300-8GLD4-M2: 45,980 yen
- UGEN300-2GLD4X-M2: 29,980 yen
- UGen200-640KSR-M2: 24,980 yen
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