We’re proud to share that ALPON X5 AI has been selected as a CES® Innovation Awards 2026 “Best of Innovation” recipient in the Enterprise Tech category. More than 5,000 products were submitted across 36 categories, and only one product from each category was chosen as Best of Innovation. Being the winner of Enterprise Tech is a significant milestone for our team and partners.
The CES Innovation Awards, organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, is a long-running program that celebrates breakthrough design and engineering across consumer and enterprise technologies. Each year, a select jury of industry experts, including journalists, designers, and engineers, evaluates entries on their originality, engineering excellence, technical execution, real-world functionality, and overall design quality.
ALPON X5 AI won because it brings serious engineering and complete lifecycle tooling into a single edge platform. Built on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 with a DEEPX DX-M1 NPU, it delivers powerful on-device AI in a compact, fanless aluminum enclosure. Dual Ethernet, Wi-Fi, LTE with eSIM, camera interfaces, built-in security, and industrial I/O make it ready for real deployments—from lines on the factory floor to cabinets, kiosks, and vehicles. Alongside the thousands of industrial and commercial systems already built on Raspberry Pi, this award also underscores how Raspberry Pi has become a trusted platform for serious enterprise use.
What makes ALPON X5 AI different is that it’s not just hardware. It comes with complete device management and built-in application container management, allowing teams to deploy and update their own software remotely from the cloud. Devices join the platform with zero-touch onboarding, stay connected via multi-layer connectivity with automatic failover, and run applications in managed containers—giving engineers a clean way to roll out new features, models, and services at fleet scale.
This matters because more organizations need reliable, private, and low-latency AI at the edge without having to build an entire infrastructure stack themselves. With ALPON X5 AI, raw data can stay on site, AI inference happens locally, and fleets are managed centrally through the cloud—balancing performance, security, and operational simplicity.
“We built ALPON X5 AI so teams can focus on solving real problems at the edge, not wrestling with hardware, connectivity, and software tech stack,” says Sait Borlak, CEO at Sixfab. “Being named Best of Innovation in Enterprise Tech is a meaningful validation for our team and our partners at Raspberry Pi and DEEPX.”
You can see ALPON X5 AI live at CES 2026 in two locations:
- Sixfab: LVCC, North Hall — Booth 8763
- DEEPX: LVCC, North Hall — Booth 8745
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Award details & images: https://www.ces.tech/ces-innovation-awards/2026/alpon-x5-ai-edge-computer/
Disclaimer: The CES® Innovation Awards are based upon descriptive materials submitted to the judges. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® did not verify the accuracy of any submission or of any claims made and did not test the item to which the award was given.