{"id":141028,"date":"2010-01-05T13:59:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5440702"},"modified":"2010-01-05T13:59:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:59:25","slug":"marvell-plug-computer-3-0-the-tiny-linux-brick-ces2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/141028","title":{"rendered":"Marvell Plug Computer 3.0: The Tiny Linux Brick [Ces2010]"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I had $1,000,000 I would buy 10,000 of these Marvell Plug Computer<\/a> 3.0, with a 2GHz Armada 300 CPU, Wi-Fi, and Linux 2.6, and build myself a supercomputer. It’s either that or cocktails.<\/p>\n

Sadly, it’s not oriented to consumers, but to the integration and development of new devices. So that’s it, fate has chosen for me. Cocktails it is.<\/p>\n

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Marvell Unveils Plug Computer<\/a> 3.0 With Integrated Wireless and Built-in Hard Drive<\/p>\n

Powerful Microserver is bolstered with 2 GHz ARMADA Processor to drive the “Always-On Lifestyle”<\/p>\n

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5 \/PRNewswire-FirstCall\/ — CES — Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today unveiled Plug Computer 3.0 – a new always-on, always connected turnkey platform designed to power the next generation intelligent applications and services for the home and office. The new embedded Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and built-in hard drive extend the use of Plug Computer into new applications including management of medical and financial records as well as a command post for the smart home – allowing for remote management of lights, thermostat and irrigation systems.<\/p>\n

Equipped with the recently announced Marvell\u00ae ARMADA(TM) 300 processor, Plug Computer 3.0 offers 2 GHz of processing performance yet maintains a very low-power footprint – making Plug Computers more powerful, eco-friendly and efficient to enable development of plug ‘n’ play next generation consumer devices with zero configuration. From streaming the latest winter vacation video to a connected TV in the bedroom, to enjoying favorite music on a Wi-Fi enabled receiver in the living room, Plug Computer 3.0 makes enjoying media on intelligent devices throughout the home easier and on-the-go more enjoyable than before.<\/p>\n

“With unprecedented integration and very low power design, Plug Computer 3.0 offers a powerful, yet compact, and green development platform to accelerate the development and availability of innovative software and services in the home,” said Dr. Simon Milner, Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Business Unit, Communications and Consumer Group at Marvell. “Following the shipment of more than 10,000 SheevaPlug(TM) development kits to date, we’re confident that this will be a transformational year, where innovative concepts organically fuel a new generation of rich applications to go hand-in-hand with the always-on lifestyle.”
The release of Plug Computer 3.0 opens up additional applications and usage in key new markets:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Smart Grid
\u2022 Home Automation
\u2022 Medical Monitoring
\u2022 Multimedia Content Sharing
\u2022 Security and Access Control
\u2022 Industrial Automation
\u2022 Agricultural
\u2022 Mesh and Grid Computing<\/p>\n

The Plug Computer 3.0 development kits will be available through Plug Computer vendors such as Globalscale Technologies Inc, Ionics EMS, and Universal Scientific Industries Co.
For more information on the products, please visit www.plugcomputer.org or visit the Plug Computer Pavilion at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week (South Hall 30344).
About the Plug Computer 3.0 Development Platform<\/p>\n

The award-winning Plug Computer 3.0 is designed to make high-performance, always-on, always connected, and green computing readily available for developers and end-users. Plug Computer 3.0 uses a 2 GHz Marvell ARMADA 300 processor, a built-in hard-disk drive and embedded Marvell Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies. Additional peripherals such as Direct Attached Storage (DAS) can be connected using a USB 2.0 port. Multiple standard Linux 2.6 kernel distributions are supported on the Plug Computer 3.0 development platform enabling rapid application development. The enclosure is designed to plug directly into a standard wall socket and is designed to draw less than one tenth of the power of a typical PC being used as a home server.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[PR Newswire<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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If I had $1,000,000 I would buy 10,000 of these Marvell Plug Computer 3.0, with a 2GHz Armada 300 CPU, Wi-Fi, and Linux 2.6, and build myself a supercomputer. It’s either that or cocktails. Sadly, it’s not oriented to consumers, but to the integration and development of new devices. So that’s it, fate has chosen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}