Pierluigi Passaro Presents Variscite's Versatile SoM Portfolio at Embedded World 2025
At Embedded World 2025, Pierluigi Passaro presented an overview of the company’s diverse System on Module portfolio. From cost-effective solutions like the VAR-SOM-AM62P to high-performance platforms like the DART-MX95, Variscite’s comprehensive range addresses varied embedded computing needs across multiple industries. The presentation showcased both established products and the latest additions to Variscite’s growing product family.
Pierluigi Passaro: Welcome to the Variscite booth at Embedded World 2025. I’m glad to show you the latest addition to our SoM family, the VAR-SOM-AM62P. This is an evolution of the previous AM62, introducing hardware video encoding and decoding capabilities.
And here you can see the DART-MX8M-PLUS, which is really interesting when you need to implement machine learning applications. You can see that we’re using the new Sonata board that’s coming soon, mainly to introduce new features like 10 gigabit Ethernet.
On this side, you can find the DART-MX8M-MINI, which offers a good compromise when you’re looking for multimedia applications, having both video encoding and decoding plus GPU acceleration.
On this side, you can find the VAR-SOM-MX93 module – sharing the same carrier board as the VAR-SOM-AM62P. This product is a low-cost variant of the i.MX 9 family, also providing machine learning capability. You can even scale it down to the i.MX 91 and have only a single core – to optimize cost.
Finally, you can see here the top of the iMX9 family – the DART-MX95 with six Cortex-A55 cores, dual Cortex-M processors (one M7 and one M33), plus a machine learning neural processing unit and GPU. It’s truly the flagship of the family. The interesting thing for customers is that this SoM reaches up to 16GB of RAM – it’s essentially like a PC now.
Let me close with the DART-6UL. It joined our family a long time ago, but it’s still very relevant in terms of cost, longevity, and efficiency.
Variscite’s booth at Embedded World 2025 demonstrated the company’s commitment to offering scalable embedded solutions that address diverse technical requirements and price points. From the economical DART-6UL to the powerful DART-MX95 with PC-level memory capacity, the portfolio showcases how Variscite continues to evolve and expand its offerings to meet the changing demands of the embedded market. These modules provide engineers with flexible options that combine performance, power consumption, and cost-effectiveness while maintaining compatibility with existing carrier boards, simplifying migration paths for product development teams.
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As AI-driven demand accelerated through 2025, memory chip shortages developed as semiconductor manufacturers shifted capacity to large-volume buyers, leaving many sectors, including medical, industrial, edge/IoT, and robotics poorly served. Climbing prices and lengthening lead times, exacerbated by knock-on effects across other SoM components, have created two clear pressure points. SoM vendors relying on outsourced manufacturing have limited flexibility when availability drops, leaving customers facing the same delays. Separately, product developers who chose chip-down architectures over SoM-based designs must procure components on their own. Those buying in smaller quantities are routinely pushed down supplier priority lists, and in many cases cannot get supply at all.
