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NXP Semiconductors

company · Netherlands

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1 product on the map — 1 closed.

NXP i.MX 8M Plus

Openness

3 high confidence
3.0
schematics
none (EVK reference designs only)
toolchain
open (Linux/Yocto BSP)
datasheets
public (IMX8MPCEC)
blobs
required (proprietary silicon + NPU firmware)
retail
distributor (commercial via NXP and SoM partners)
form_factor
chipset (applications-processor family, not a board)

NXP publishes a full 111-page datasheet for the i.MX 8M Plus and an open, buildable Yocto Linux BSP. But NXP publishes no board design files of its own — the BSP only configures NXP's own reference EVK and FRDM boards — and building the NPU firmware into that BSP requires accepting NXP's end-user license agreement for its proprietary recipes.

  • https://mm.digikey.com/Volume0/opasdata/d220001/medias/docus/5783/IMX8MPCEC.pdf recorded 2026-08-14

    the named datasheet in full, openly mirrored by DigiKey - "NXP Semiconductors Data Sheet - Technical Data, Document Number IMX8MPCEC, Rev. 2.1, 07/2023"; "a powerful quad Arm Cortex-A53 processor with speed up to 1.8 GHz integrated with a NPU of 2.3 TOPS"; an integrated 800 MHz Cortex-M7; package and pin assignments but no board schematics

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nxp-imx/meta-imx/master/README.md recorded 2026-08-14

    "Yocto Project BSP for NXP i.MX Linux Release LF6.18.20_2.0.0", with i.MX 8M Plus machines imx8mp-lpddr4-evk, imx8mp-ddr4-evk and imx8mp-lpddr4-frdm; and "The NXP i.MX End User License Agreement (EULA) is displayed during the setup process ... The license must be accepted to allow access to the NXP EULA-licensed recipes"

  • https://www.nxp.com/products/i.MX8MPLUS recorded 2026-06-22

    official page: Cortex-A53/M7, up to 2.3 TOPS NPU, ML/vision focus. Not re-fetchable - www.nxp.com answers HTTP 404 to every automated request including its own root, under every header set tried - so it keeps its recorded read

  • https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/verdin-arm-family/nxp-imx-8m-plus recorded 2026-08-14

    a SoM partner shipping the part commercially - the Verdin iMX8M Plus module with a Configure Your Own path and availability listed to 2036+

Adoption

4 high confidence
4.0

Toradex's Verdin iMX8M Plus module remains live and configurable, with a product availability commitment to 2036 or later. A board partner committing a decade of supply is the mark of a chip settled into long-term industrial deployment, though it is one partner's commitment rather than a shipment count.

Capability

3 high confidence
3.0

The integrated NPU delivers 2.3 TOPS, enough for industrial vision and ML workloads but below the roughly 4 TOPS of the BeagleY-AI and TI AM67A, and well below the Jetson Orin line.