Abaco Systems will be introducing its SBC3618, a 3U VPX single board computer built on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) processors.

The company highlights it is aligned to the SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) compute-intensive profile, the SBC3618 brings hybrid CPU, GPU, and NPU acceleration to sensor fusion, autonomy, electronic warfare, and AI inference at the tactical edge and was designed congruent to the Intel CPU launch.

Featuring hybrid CPU, GPU, and NPU acceleration, it has up to 64 GB of LPDDR5 with up to 1 TB NVMe storage. And there’s a 100G Ethernet data plane with RDMA and PCIe Gen4 expansion

Suggested applications include sensor fusion, autonomy, electronic warfare, and AI inference at the edge.

Note that while early access units are available now, production will begin in Q1 2027.

SBC3618 block diagram

“Our customers are pushing more autonomy and more AI into the platform, and they need it inside a power and thermal envelope that fits the mission,” said Simon Collins, Director of Product Management at Abaco Systems.

“The SBC3618 is a SOSA compute-intensive board built with the new Core Ultra Series 3 and it gives integrators a programmable 15 to 65W power envelope, real-time AI processing, FPGA-backed security, and optional TSN, all on a SOSA aligned card.”

With Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ support for security, the SBC3618 also enables optional time-sensitive networking for deterministic, low-latency communications. And there are convection and conduction-cooled variants. Finally, there is Linux and Windows support.

You can find more information on the Abaco website (including the datasheet).

Abaco Systems – a $7.5 billion revenue company – has its headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama.

Images: (top) Abaco (bottom) via Google Gemini 3

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