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STM32N6570-DK

A development kit for ST's STM32N6, a microcontroller with its own neural accelerator, so builders can run camera and audio AI models at microcontroller scale and power.

by STMicroelectronics · last checked Oct 18, 2026

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What has been shown

In volume production and on sale from ST and distributors.

Evidence support Company-reported · Independently verified

Public availability ST's own eStore listed the kit as active and in stock at $220.82 on October 18, 2026, and RS Components had it in stock in the UK at £173.73 excluding VAT. STMicroelectronics eStore, RS Components (UK)

As of Oct 18, 2026 · STMicroelectronics eStore (company source), RS Components (UK) (independent reporting)

Can you get it?

Available now

Sold on ST's eStore and through distributors.

United States, United Kingdom · As of Oct 18, 2026 · STMicroelectronics eStore (company source), RS Components (UK) (independent reporting)

Is it still alive?

Active

ST lists the kit as "Active. Product is in volume production."

    As of Oct 18, 2026 · STMicroelectronics (company source), STMicroelectronics eStore (company source)

    Sold on ST's eStore at $220.82 and through distributors, including RS Components in the UK at £173.73 excluding VAT, on October 18, 2026.

    What the evidence says

    1. Company claim

      ST says the STM32N6's Neural-ART accelerator, clocked at 1 GHz, provides up to 600 GOPS for real-time neural-network inference in computer-vision and audio applications, alongside a camera pipeline with image signal processing.

      Observed Oct 18, 2026 · STMicroelectronics (company source)
    2. Company claim

      The Discovery kit pairs the STM32N657X0 microcontroller with a 5-inch capacitive touch LCD, a camera-module connector, a MEMS microphone, Ethernet, USB-C and an on-board debugger.

      Observed Oct 18, 2026 · STMicroelectronics (company source), STMicroelectronics eStore (company source)
    3. Independently verified

      Academic measurement with an ST co-author, not fully independent: researchers at Politecnico di Milano, working with one ST and one EssilorLuxottica co-author, ran four MLPerf Tiny models on this kit's NPU. Lowering the voltage cut energy per inference for the DS-CNN keyword model from 219.0 to 156.5 µJ and for MobileNet from 443.9 to 331.4 µJ, and optimizing the setup phase before each inference cut the energy-delay product by 25.5% on average.

      Observed Oct 18, 2026 · Politecnico di Milano, STMicroelectronics and EssilorLuxottica (arXiv 2505.15622) (independent reporting)

    Price

    • ST eStore$220.82Price per unit for 1–2 units; in stock. Checked Oct 22, 2026. STMicroelectronics eStore (company source)
    • RS Components, excluding VAT£173.73£208.48 including VAT; in stock. Checked Oct 18, 2026. RS Components (UK) (independent reporting)

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