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ThunderSoft said on June 2 its unit Chuangtong Lianda unveiled the TurboX C7790 edge-AI development kit at Computex Taipei. Built on the Qualcomm Q-7790 (CQ7790S) processor, the kit delivers up to 24 TOPS and combines a production-grade TurboX C7790 SOM, a feature-rich carrier board, Android/Linux support and mainstream AI toolchains to provide an out-of-the-box path from PoC to mass production. Target use cases include video-conferencing endpoints, smart cameras, industrial robots, autonomous mobile robots, collaborative and delivery robots, and high-end edge gateways. The company says the product fills a gap in Qualcomm-platform modules offering >20 TOPS.