Intel's Meteor Lake processors are showing up in increasingly compact form factors, and Axiomtek's new PICO570 may be one of the smallest yet. The Pico-ITX board measures just 10 x 7.2 cm (3.9 x 2.8 inches) and ships with either an Intel Core Ultra 5 125U or Core Ultra 7 155U processor, both 12-core chips with Intel Arc integrated graphics and an 11 TOPS NPU for on-device AI inference. At 15W TDP, the board is clearly targeting embedded and edge deployments where space and power are at a premium.
What sets the PICO570 apart from similar boards like the AAEON PICO-MTU4 is its use of a standard 262-pin DDR5 SO-DIMM slot rather than soldered LPDDR5. That means users can install up to 64GB of DDR5-5600 memory and swap it out later, a practical advantage for industrial deployments where requirements can shift over a product's lifetime. Storage comes via an M.2 Key M 2280 slot supporting PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe or SATA SSDs, and video output is handled by an HDMI 2.1 port capable of 4K at 120Hz alongside an LVDS connector for panel displays.
Networking is available through dual Ethernet controllers, a 2.5GbE Intel I226-V and a Gigabit Intel I219-LM, though both use internal wafer connectors and require Axiomtek's AX93A24 RJ45 I/O board to expose standard ports. An M.2 Key E 2230 slot is also present for adding Wi-Fi or Bluetooth modules. The board rounds out its I/O with two USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, a BIOS-selectable RS-232/422/485 serial interface, digital I/O, and an SMBus connector. A watchdog timer, hardware monitoring for temperature, voltage, and fan speed, and fTPM 2.0 via Intel PTT handle the reliability and security side.
The PICO570 supports both Windows 10/11 and Linux, and Axiomtek provides its eAPI 3.0 SDK for managing the watchdog, hardware monitoring, and digital I/O programmatically. On the graphics side, Meteor Lake's Intel Arc iGPU runs under the upstream i915 kernel driver on most distributions out of the box, and Linux users can opt into the newer open-source Intel Xe driver, which Phoronix benchmarking has shown to deliver measurable performance improvements on Meteor Lake iGPUs, though it remains experimental for this processor generation. With an operating temperature range of -20 to 60°C (-4 to 140°F) and a simple 12V DC power input, the board is built for unattended operation in industrial environments. Pricing is not publicly listed, as is typical for industrial SBCs, so interested buyers will need to contact Axiomtek directly for a quote.
