CuBox

CuBox and CuBox-i are series of small and fanless nettop-class computers manufactured by the Israeli company SolidRun Ltd. They are all cube-shaped and sized at approximately 2 × 2 × 2 inches and weigh 91 grams (0.2 lb, or 3.2 oz).CuBox was first announced in December 2011 and began shipping in January 2012, initially being marketed as a cheap open source developer platform for embedded systems.

The first-generation CuBox was according to SolidRun the first commercially available desktop computer based on the Marvell Armada 500-series SoC (System-on-Chip), and was at the time said to be the world's smallest desktop computer.

In November 2013, SolidRun released the Cubox-i1, i2, i2eX, and i4Pro, containing i.MX6 processors.

OVERVIEW

CuBox is a low-power ARM architecture CPU based computer, using the Marvell Armada 510 (88AP510) SoC with an ARM v6/v7-compliant superscalar processor core, Vivante GC600 OpenGL 3.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics processing unit, Marvell vMeta HD Video Decoder hardware engine, and TrustZone security extensions, Cryptographic Engines and Security Accelerator (CESA) co-processor.

Despite being about 2-inch-square in size, the platform can stream and decode 1080p content, use desktop class interfaces such as KDE or GNOME under Linux, while requiring less than 3 watt and less than 1 watt in standby.

SolidRun currently officially only supports Linux kernel 2.6.x or later, and Android 2.2.x and later, and it comes with Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 and Android 2.2 dual-boot pre-installed.

SOURCE  : WIKIPEDIA