Compact AI Workstations Bring Blackwell to Desks
MINIX's T4000 and T5000 are announced, not yet shipping, and their inference figures come from the manufacturer.
Updated on Nov. 1, 2026 in Computers
MINIX has published specifications for the T4000 and T5000, compact AI workstations built on NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Thor platform, which pairs Blackwell GPU architecture with Arm Neoverse-V3AE processors. The product is listed as Coming Soon, so it is announced rather than shipped.
Why it matters
Desktop-sized machines that run large AI models locally are becoming a distinct product tier between cloud servers and ordinary workstations. The T4000 and T5000 show that tier moving toward hardware small enough for an office desk.
The figures are manufacturer specifications: the T5000 carries 2,560 CUDA cores and 2,070 sparse FP4 TFLOPS against the T4000's 1,536 cores and 1,200 TFLOPS, with both sharing 273GB/s of memory bandwidth. Reported inference speeds of 90.7 tokens per second on Qwen-30B-A3B and 6.7 on DeepSeek-R1-70B have not been independently verified.
The players
MINIX
A Chinese mini-PC maker whose T4000 and T5000 are compact AI workstations built on NVIDIA hardware.
NVIDIA
A GPU and AI computing company whose Jetson AGX Thor platform, built on Blackwell architecture, powers both MINIX systems.
The details
Both systems use NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Thor module, which combines a Blackwell GPU with Arm Neoverse-V3AE CPU cores in a single package. Blackwell is NVIDIA's current GPU architecture, and the Neoverse-V3AE is an Arm server-class CPU design. Both configurations support Multi-Instance GPU technology, which splits one physical GPU into isolated partitions: the T4000 supports six and the T5000 supports ten, letting several workloads share the hardware.
Timeline
April 2026: MINIX originally announced the workstation.
November 1, 2026: Article published with the product listed as Coming Soon.
The Tech Race
The MINIX T4000 and T5000 build on NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Thor module, which sits in the Blackwell generation of GPU architecture. The launch places a third-party vendor in the market for packaged, desk-scale AI machines that compete with larger workstation offerings.
The workstations are listed as Coming Soon, with no confirmed ship date or availability region in the source. Buyers would need to be able to run and power compact desktop AI hardware, and pricing starts at $6,460 for the T4000 and $9,785 for the T5000.
The takeaway
Watch for independent benchmarks of the MINIX systems to confirm or contradict the manufacturer's tokens-per-second figures. Also track when MINIX moves the listing from Coming Soon to an orderable product with a confirmed ship date.
Further reading
Explore more on Computers to see how desktop hardware is changing for local AI work.
