Virtium Edge AI Solutions

Specifications — Virtium VMX-004 AI Accelerator Module

Specifications — Virtium / Embedded Artists RZ/G3E DX-M1 SOM

Overview

Virtium is a 25-year industrial modular hardware manufacturer whose Edge AI line pairs its own manufacturing, qualification and lifecycle-management infrastructure with accelerator silicon from MemryX and DEEPX. The portfolio covers two complementary form factors: an M.2 accelerator card that upgrades an existing host, and a populated System-on-Module for new designs.

The Virtium VMX-004 is an Edge AI industrial module carrying four MemryX MX3 inference processors for up to 24 TOPS at 3–10 W typical. Its defining architectural choice is that models run entirely from on-chip SRAM, so the module needs no external DRAM — dropping latency, power, heat and board complexity at once. Floating-point activations preserve vision-model accuracy, and models compile with a one-click toolchain requiring no retraining or code changes; software access is available without an NDA. The card follows PCIe M.2 2280 and drops into most ARM and x86 carrier boards and motherboards.

The VMX-004 is a rare combination of edge AI acceleration with TAA compliance and US assembly — designed and assembled in Southern California — which makes it relevant to aerospace and defence, government and other procurement programmes that require domestic sourcing. Industrial −40 °C to +85 °C operation and long-term product availability discipline suit deployment outside climate-controlled racks.

The RZ/G3E DX-M1 SOM takes the opposite approach, integrating compute and acceleration on one module. A Renesas RZ/G3E application processor (4× Cortex-A55 at 1.8 GHz plus a Cortex-M33 real-time core, 21.6K DMIPS) is paired over PCIe Gen3 with a DEEPX DX-M1 AI Booster delivering up to 25 TOPS at 5 W, with its own 4 GB of LPDDR5-5600. Buyers who need only edge compute can order the same module without the DX-M1 mounted and scale into AI later without redesigning the carrier. Dual display, H.264 1080p60 / H.265 4Kp30 codecs, dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional Wi-Fi 6E and a MIPI-CSI2 camera input cover HMI, vision and multimedia roles, in the 82 × 50 mm MXM3 form factor.

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