Overview

Adding to AAEON’s extensive Industrial Motherboard lineup, the new MIX-Q870A1 is AAEON’s most sophisticated Mini-ITX board yet.
Supporting up to 65W Intel® Core™ Ultra 200S Series Processors for the Edge (formerly Arrow Lake-S), the MIX-Q870A1 can achieve up to 36 TOPS of integrated AI performance, making it an exceptionally powerful foundation for solution building.

Features

1. 65W Intel Core Ultra 200S Series CPU Support

Supporting up to 65W Intel® Core™ Ultra 200S Series LGA 1851 socket-type processors, the MIX-Q870A1 offers up to 36 TOPs of AI performance, leveraging the Arrow Lake platform’s Xe LPG graphics architecture alongside an on-chip NPU with broad support for popular AI software frameworks including OpenVINO™, WindowsML, DirectML, and ONNX RT.

2. PCIe Gen 5 x16 with Bifurcation

Boasting a 16-lane PCIe Gen 5 slot with a dedicated jumper for lane configuration, the MIX-Q870A1 provides modular functional expansion. This means that even when equipped with a GPU to bolster the AI acceleration offered by the Intel Core Ultra platform, the remaining lanes can be split to accommodate additional modules like NVMe SSDs, NICs, frame grabbers, or fieldbus interface cards.

3. Diverse Storage Architecture

The MIX-Q870A1 features an M.2 2280 M-Key offers a four-lane PCIe for NVMe or AI acceleration, alongside an M.2 2242 M-Key (SATA) and two SATA 6Gb/s ports to expand storage options. Supporting everything from high-bandwidth NVMe to stable HDD data logging, it also includes Intel® RST to enable RAID 0/1 on SATA drives for enhanced data reliability.

4. Densely Populated Interface Selection

The MIX-Q870A1 grants four independent displays, with two HDMI 2.0 and two DP 1.4, as well as a 40-pin LVDS/eDP connector. Meanwhile, the board’s rear I/O offers eight USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports alongside both 2.5GbE and 1GbE LAN ports to grant extensive connectivity for peripheral devices and wired networking. Rounding this off is an 8-bit programmable internal digital I/O header and a USB header supporting two additional USB 3.2 Gen 1 interfaces.