Blending Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processing with a reinforced, low-profile design, the EPIC-PTH9 sees AAEON target the industrial AI sphere.
Taipei, Taiwan – June 25: Industry-leading provider of embedded solutions AAEON (Stock Code: 6579) today announced the release of the EPIC-PTH9, a 4” industrial single-board computer with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (formerly Panther Lake), PCIe Gen 5 x8 expansion, and a robust, low-profile design.
Offering standard models with a choice of either the Intel Core Ultra X7 Processor 358H or Intel Core Ultra 7 Processor 356H, the EPIC-PTH9 can deliver up to 180 TOPS of AI performance through the Intel platform’s integrated CPU, Intel Arc B390 GPU, and NPU.
Given the product’s positioning as a platform for industrial AI applications, its I/O is geared towards support for the need to support multiple cameras, sensors, or control devices such solutions require. For this, the EPIC-PTH9 comes with four LAN ports, three of which three running at 2.5GbE and one at 1GbE speed, with two of these four ports supporting PXE enablement.
Other notable I/Os come in the form of four USB ports (two USB 3.2 Gen 2 and two USB 2.0), as well as four internal serial port headers. The board also provides a GPIO 8-bit, and SMBus header, co-lay with I2C and timed GPIO functions, which can be changed by BOM.
Perhaps the biggest difference between the EPIC-PTH9 and its predecessors, outside of its processing foundation, is the presence of a PCIe 5.0 x8 slot, which can be used to host next-gen AI accelerators, frame grabbers, and other specialized industrial I/O cards. Other expansion options include a M.2 3052 B-Key, M.2 2230 E-Key, and M.2 2280 M-Key slots for 5G, Wi-Fi, and NVMe storage modules, respectively.
The EPIC-PTH9 also sees improvements in its environmental ruggedness, with a default temperature range of -20°C to 70°C and a 9V to 24V power input tolerance. These features are particularly notable given the board’s low-profile 1U I/O height.
With respect to OS compatibility, the EPIC-PTH9 lists support for both Windows 11 and Linux Ubuntu 26.04 (kernel 7.0.0-14).