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Particle's Tachyon single-board computer brings 5G, 12 TOPS NPU in a Snapdragon-powered package

The star of the show is Qualcomm's Snapdragon QCM6490 system-on-chip (it powers the Fairphone 5). This octa-core processor features Kryo 670 CPU sporting four high-performance Cortex-A78 cores...

In brief: IoT startup Particle looks geared to shake up the single-board computer market with their latest creation – the Tachyon. Particle likely chose the QCM6490 chip in part because Qualcomm classifies it for Industrial IoT applications and guarantees 10-year lifetime availability. As for use cases, this is what the startup has to say: "Particle's customers use our platform to do everything from monitoring equipment in dentists' offices to searching for methane escapes on an oil site to tracking lobster boats off of the coast of Maine to providing access controls to gyms and breastfeeding stations.

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