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   Sipeed unveils MaixStation, a $3,999 Chinese rival to Nvidia's DGX Spark

   Sipeed announced the MaixStation, a mini PC built on Axera's new AX8860P: 16 Arm Cortex-A55 cores plus an in-house NPU rated at 256 TOPS FP4 without sparsity, with 128GB of LPDDR5X on a 256-bit bus at 273 GB/s, running Debian 13 and Linux 6.18. Sipeed told Tom's Hardware the 128GB model should cost about $3,999, with a Kickstarter campaign at the end of the year, shipping within three months of it closing, and an NPU toolchain due by the end of this month; the company claims vLLM, SGLang and PyTorch support. It says a single node runs Qwen 27B with 25% faster prefill and 30% faster decode than the DGX Spark, but in its email claims only about a 10% lead on both with FP4 on each machine and speculative decoding off, calling wider-margin runs unofficial. For comparison, the 128GB DGX Spark lists at $6,950 and the 128GB AMD Ryzen AI Halo at $3,999.99.

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