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Up! Board Bridge the Gap, or simply Up! Board, is a crowdfunded company creating single board computing solutions designed to compete with a host of previously developed single board computer such as the Raspberry Pi, using a Wintel platform and built in non-volitile memory.

While beginning life selling most of it's projects as Kickstarter awards, Up! now is affliated with Aaeon, an Asus company designed to encourage computer innovation. . In it's early days the company made boards that competed directly with products like the Latte Panda, and Foxconn's Kangaroo,.

Using Intel's Cherry Trail chipset combined with a multicore Atom processor, in it's orginal model, and bundled with Linux, the computer quickly reached it's funding goals on Kickstarter, resulting in a host of other computers being offered. On March 14, 2019, the company announced the release of an Intel Core line of single board computers using the Kaby Lake Chipset. Introductory pricing ran from $428, to $698us.

More recently Up! Bridge the Gap has been working on AI single board options. Known as Up! AI Edge, the company now offers a variety of products with the Intel Cyclone CPU, and Movidius, an neural neutral video platform optimized for machine learning.

Given how new the technology it's promoting is, the company took the unusal step on February 22, 2019, of offering a free two day workshop in the Netherlands with the purchase of a development kit. As of that date, the company offered 24 Kickstarter awards.

Up! Board core products range in price from $99, to $399.