SolidRun introduces a small, modern and impressive mini-computer that fits everybody's budget
With the dream of putting their mini-computer into everyone's hands, SolidRun has launched its CuBox-i series with a dazzling $45 price tag on their CuBox-i1 entry level computer. Other members of the series are the CuBox-i2, CuBox-i2ultra and CuBox-i4pro. All are based on Freescale's i.MX6 SoC series and offer a wide variety of configurations ranging from single, dual and quad ARM processors running up to 1.2GHz.
"We build small and low power computers," said Rabeeh Khoury, CTO of SolidRun. "Given the open source SDK and tons of available software packages, our computers can be used in a huge range of scenarios limited only by your imagination; ranging from embedded, multimedia, education, cloud client, HMI and many other fields, as well as all the fun projects you always dreamed of."
For many open source software packages, work is already completed or in the progress of porting. This includes latest versions of Linux kernel, XBMC Media Center and much more. Alongside Linux, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean is one of the major operating systems supported by the new computer.
The CuBox-i series maintains an impressively small footprint and the low power consumption. CuBox-i has clean lines and a high polish 2×2×2 inch3 enclosure and its features include:
- Up to quad i.MX6 Cortex A9 ARM processors, up to 1.2GHz each
- ARMv7 instruction set, including NEON extension support
- Up to 2GByte DDR-3
- HDMI 1080p output
- Multi format hardware video decoding and encoding engine
- Integrated video image processing unit
- OpenGL|ES 2.0 GPU with OpenCL* 1.1 embedded profile support
- 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet on higher end models only)
- Two powered USB-2.0 host interfaces.
- eSata 3Gbps*
- Infra-red receiver and transmitter
- Optical audio SPDIF out
- microSD for operating system storage
- microUSB for development *
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and BlueTooth*
- Built-in Real Time Clock with battery backup*
* Supported on higher end models only
Limited number of mini computers will be available for pre-ordering at the product's web-site (cubox-i.com).
