The Cotton Candy is a tiny fanless single board computer on a stick, putting the full functionality of a personal computer on a device the size of a USB memory stick, produced by Norwegian-based hardware and non-profit startup FXI Technologies (also called just " FXI Tech ").
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Cotton Candy is a low-power ARM architecture based computer that uses dual-core processors like the Exynos 4210 1.2 GHz dual-core (ARM Cortex-A9 45m with 1MB L2 cache) SoC (System on chip) by Samsung, featuring quad-core GPU 200- MHz ARM Mali-400 MP OpenGL ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics processing unit, Audio and Video Decoder hardware engine, and TrustZone (Security Extensions) Cryptographic Engine and Security Accelerator (CESA) co-processor. The platform is said to stream and decode H.264 1080p content, and can use desktop class interfaces such as KDE or GNOME on Linux.
FXI Technologies claims to run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and the latest Ubuntu Desktop Linux operating system, leveraging Linaro's development and Linux kernel optimization.
Starting September 13, 2012, FXI started shipping to pre-ordered devices. At the time of writing (November 2013), Cotton Candy is generally available. FXI has also created an Android ICS Beta image and a Linux Beta image available for download.
On July 16, 2014, FXI declared bankruptcy.
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Reception
In January 2012, Cotton Candy made it to the top 10 finalists in "Last Last Gadget Technology" competition at CES 2012. Also at CES 2012, LaptopMag.com made the top-10 finalist Candy Candy for the "Preferably Readers Preferably" award CES 2012 ". EFYTimes News Network also named FXI Technologies Cotton Candy as "10 Top 10 Gadgets Launched @ CES 2012 ".
See also
- Exynos, System on Chip by Samsung is used in Cotton Candy
- Comparison of single board computers
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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