Nine Cores and a Secure Enclave on SMARC
MYIR's MYC-JMX95X puts NXP's i.MX95 — six Cortex-A55, a Cortex-M7, a Cortex-M33 and a 2 TOPS NPU — on an 82 by 50 mm SMARC module with TPM 2.0 and EdgeLock, rated to 85 °C.
MYIR has introduced the MYC-JMX95X, an 82 by 50 millimetre module compliant with SMARC 2.1 and 2.2 on a twelve-layer board, built on NXP's i.MX95 in the MIMX9596XVTXNAC variant. The processor carries six Arm Cortex-A55 cores at up to 1.8 GHz, a Cortex-M7 at up to 800 MHz and a Cortex-M33 at up to 333 MHz, an eIQ Neutron NPU rated to 2 TOPS INT8, and an Arm Mali-G310 GPU. Memory is 4 or 8 GB of LPDDR5 with 32 or 64 GB of eMMC plus a 32 Kbit EEPROM. Interfaces include PCIe Gen3, two RGMII Ethernet connections, two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 host ports, dual CAN FD, MIPI-CSI and MIPI-DSI, HDMI at 4K 30 Hz and dual LVDS. Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 are onboard. Security comprises TPM 2.0 and NXP's EdgeLock secure enclave. The industrial temperature range is −40 to +85 °C on a 5 V, 2 A supply; pricing has not been published.
The core count is the architectural point. Six application cores, an M7 for hard real-time work and an M33 that in NXP's designs typically handles the always-on and security domain is a three-tier arrangement rather than a big-little split. In practice that lets one device run a Linux application stack, a deterministic control loop and a separate low-power supervisory function that stays alive when the rest is asleep — which is the shape of an industrial gateway, a charging controller or a vehicle telematics unit, and normally requires two or three chips.
The security content is the part worth weighing against the alternatives, because it is increasingly not optional. TPM 2.0 plus a vendor secure enclave provides hardware-backed key storage, a measured boot chain and a device identity that cannot be cloned by copying the flash. Under the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the various device-identity requirements now appearing in procurement specifications, a design that relies on keys in ordinary flash is becoming difficult to defend. Building on a module that already carries both removes a substantial certification and design burden, and the EdgeLock enclave in particular exists to hold the private key that makes secure boot and attestation meaningful.
Two practical notes. SMARC is a socketed standard, which means the module can be replaced or upgraded without a new carrier board — the opposite trade from the solder-down modules appearing elsewhere in this class, and the right choice where field serviceability or a long product life with a mid-life processor change matters. And the 2 TOPS NPU is modest by current marketing standards and adequate for the workloads this device will actually see: anomaly detection on sensor streams, a small classifier on a camera, keyword spotting. What determines whether that figure is reachable is NXP's eIQ toolchain and its operator coverage for the specific network, which is worth establishing during evaluation rather than trusting to the headline number.