NVIDIA's more powerful 'AI brain' for robots is available now for $1,999

If you've been eager to use NVIDIA's more powerful robotics'brain' for projects, you now have your chance -- provided you're willing to pay a premium. The company is now selling the Jetson AGX Orin developer kit for $1,999. The palm-sized computing device is now billed as eight times more powerful than Jetson AGX Xavier (275 trillion operations per second, or TOPS) thanks to its 12-core ARM Cortex-A78AE CPUs, Ampere-based GPU and upgrades to its AI accelerators, interfaces, memory bandwidth and sensor support. You'll have to wait a while longer for production-ready units. They'll be available in the fourth quarter of the year starting at $399 for a'basic' Orin NX kit with six CPU cores, a 1,792-core GPU, 8GB of RAM and 70 TOPS of performance.