Minisforum has announced an upcoming NAS that is built from the ground up to run large language models locally. The yet-to-be-released N5 Max AI NAS comes with a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Strix Halo APU and features OpenClaw pre-installed, an open-source AI framework that can be configured to run a variety of tasks. Pricing and a release date have yet to be announced.
The small-form-factor manufacturer neglected to share the NAS's full specifications, particularly the unit's storage capacity. All we know officially is the CPU inside, which is AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU sporting 16 Zen 5 CPU cores that can clock up to 5.1GHz, a Radeon 8060S iGPU with 40 CUs, XDNA 2 NPU, and 64MB of L3 cache. The 395+ can be configured with 32GB to 128GB of system memory; likely, Minisforum is using a higher memory capacity of 64GB to 128GB. LLMs are known to scale very well with larger amounts of memory capacity.
