Hardware
From a $1 microcontroller to an industrial edge cluster.
Furcate runs on consumer-grade single-board computers, industrial-grade edge gateways, and microcontrollers in the sub-$5 BoM. The runtime adapts to whatever silicon is available — TensorRT on Jetson, Pixtral on Hailo-10H, LiteRT on Coral, TFLite Micro on ESP32 / Arduino / RP2350 — and the orchestration plane treats them all the same.
Single-board computers
SBCs that run the full Furcate stack.
If it boots Linux and has a few hundred MB of RAM, Furcate runs. The boards in this list are validated targets — we ship reference firmware images, OTA channels, and supported runtimes for each.
Raspberry Pi 5
$80-120
ARM Cortex-A76 · 4-16 GB · USB-C PD · 8 GB best for Furcate full stack
General-purpose edge node, often paired with Hailo-10H AI HAT+ 2
Raspberry Pi 4
$60-90
ARM Cortex-A72 · 2-8 GB · LPDDR4
Existing fleets · LiteRT + Coral USB Accelerator pairings
Pi Compute Module 4 / 5
$60-150
Pi-on-PCB · industrial form-factor · -40 to 85°C variants
OEM-embedded products · ruggedised gateways
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super
$249
67 TOPS · 6-core Cortex-A78AE · Ampere GPU · 8 GB LPDDR5 · 7-25 W
VLM / LLM inference at the edge · Qwen3-VL · OpenVLA · TensorRT Edge-LLM
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX / AGX Orin
$400-2,000
100-275 TOPS · industrial-grade · larger model envelopes
Heavier on-device LLM / VLM workloads · multi-camera vision
NVIDIA Jetson Nano Original
$99
0.5 TFLOPS · legacy Maxwell · 4 GB LPDDR4
Legacy fleets · LiteRT only · upgrade path to Orin Nano Super
BeagleBone AI / BeagleY-AI
$70-120
ARM Cortex-A53 · TI C7x DSP · 4 TOPS
Industrial OEMs preferring TI silicon
Radxa ROCK / Banana Pi
$80-150
Rockchip RK3588 · ARM Cortex-A76+A55 · 6 TOPS NPU
Pi-class alternative with onboard NPU
AI accelerators
NPUs and TPUs that ride the SBC.
Pair an accelerator with an SBC for an order-of-magnitude lift in inference throughput at modest power. Furcate detects the accelerator at boot and routes the right model to the right silicon.
Hailo-10H + Pi AI HAT+ 2
$130
40 TOPS INT4 / 20 INT8 · 2.5 W · M.2 · LPDDR4/4X on-module
On-device LLM (10 tok/s for 2B-param) on a Pi 5
Hailo-8 / Hailo-15
$70-180
26 TOPS · M.2 / mini-PCIe / chip-down · automotive-qualified
Industrial cameras · POS systems · automotive
Google Coral M.2 + USB
$25-60
4 TOPS · 2 W · TFLite-quantised models
Classical vision inference at very low power
Intel Movidius Myriad X
$30-80
1 TOPS · USB / M.2 · OpenVINO native
Smart camera / industrial vision
Kinara Ara-2
$150-300
40 TOPS · M.2 · transformer-tuned
Edge-LLM / VLM serving where Hailo doesn't fit
Microcontrollers · TinyML
Where the model fits in tens of kilobytes.
TensorFlow Lite Micro / LiteRT Micro inferences without an OS, on flash budgets measured in kilobytes. Gesture recognition, voice commands, sensor anomaly detection, sub-mW always-on patterns.
ESP32-P4 (Espressif)
$8-25
RISC-V dual-core 400 MHz · MIPI-CSI camera · USB · TFLM
Camera-equipped microcontroller — TinyML person/animal detection at < $20 BoM
ESP32 / ESP32-S3
$3-12
Xtensa dual-core · Wi-Fi + BLE · TFLM
Wireless sensor pods · TinyML gesture / audio / motion
Raspberry Pi RP2350
$0.60-12
ARM Cortex-M33 / Hazard3 RISC-V dual-core · 520 KB SRAM
TinyML for under $1 in volume — the Pico 2 ecosystem
Arduino Portenta H7 / Nicla Vision
$80-130
Cortex-M7 + M4 · onboard camera · TFLM
Industrial-grade Arduino with a real ML toolchain
Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense Rev2
$45
Cortex-M4F · 9-DOF IMU + microphone + environmental sensors
TinyML reference board — gesture, voice, anomaly
Nordic nRF52 / nRF54
$8-25
Cortex-M4 / M33 · BLE · sub-mW always-on
Battery-powered edge — TinyML voice keyword spotting
STM32H7 / STM32U5
$5-15
Cortex-M7 / M33 · STM32Cube.AI
Industrial microcontroller TinyML — STM ecosystem
Industrial edge gateways
Ruggedised compute for the floor.
Sealed enclosures, DIN-rail mounts, redundant power, fanless thermals, IEC 62443 zones-and-conduits-aware networking. Used in process plants, gigafactories, mines, ports, ISO-rated environments.
NVIDIA IGX Thor (industrial-grade)
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Real-time physical-AI edge · functional safety · enterprise reliability
Highest-end sovereign edge inference for medical / industrial / autonomous machines
Advantech / ASUS / Kontron / Avalue
$500-3,000
x86 + ARM rugged industrial PCs · DIN-rail · -40 to 70°C
Bring-your-own-OS-image gateway for plant-side fleets
Crusoe Edge Zones / Azure Local hardware
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Modular AI datacentre · sovereign-zone reference
Customer-owned modular DCs that run inference at the customer's perimeter
HPE Edgeline / Dell NativeEdge / Lenovo ThinkEdge
Inquire
Enterprise server-class edge
Large-footprint industrial sites · regulated sectors · air-gapped operation
Reference designs
Branded firmware, your label.
For OEMs, Furcate ships reference hardware designs and branded firmware images. Take a Pi CM5 or Jetson Orin NX module, drop it on your carrier, ship a product with our runtime + orchestration + your application stack already integrated. Long-term-support contracts available for customers under regulatory or industrial maintenance regimes.