Hi DingoBorat,
I think I know exactly what you mean by
four holes in a fan-shaped arrangement - this is what you are looking for, right?
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Strangely, in all the online shop pictures of the Edge AI Box as well as in those featured on the product brief, that “mysterious” side - which is the one to the left of the LED lights - is always hidden from view:
https://shop.brainchipinc.com/products/akida™-edge-ai-box
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However, if you go to
https://brainchip.com/embeddedworld/, you will find two videos about the VVDN Edge AI Box that show a 360 degree view - et voilà!
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To be honest, I am unsure why our company is seemingly trying to avoid drawing attention to that side. According to the translation of the Chinese article
@Fullmoonfever posted yesterday and also according to a Hackster.io article I found (see below), our Edge AI Box has a passive heatsink, which I take to mean it is fanless? Why not flaunt this attribute, then?
To be fair, though, nowhere do the specifications on the BrainChip website mention “passive heatsink” or “fanless” nor did Todd Vierra resp. Rob Telson use those terms or similar in the above videos, and neither did Nandan Nayampally, when he talked about the Edge AI Box in an interview a few weeks before he left. So maybe that specific piece of information in those two articles is incorrect - possibly a misunderstanding copied by several other writers?
And what looks like a fan is exactly that - a fan?
Packing a quad-core NXP i.MX 8M Plus and a two-chip Akida accelerator, the Akida Edge AI Box promises power-efficient on-device operations.
www.hackster.io
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