Cotton Candy Common manufacturers Design firm FXI Technologies Introduced Cotton Candy (2011-11-17 ) [ 1] [ 2] Cost ~US$199 ERP Type Single-board computer Processor Samsung Exynos 4210Frequency 1.2 GHz Memory 1 GB DRAM Coprocessor Mali-400 MP GPUThumb-2 inst. setJazelle DBX Jazelle RCT TrustZone CESAPorts HDMI 1.3aWeight 21 g (0.74 oz) Dimensions 80 mm (3.1 in)(h) (w) (d)
TheCotton Candy is a very small, fanlesssingle-board computer on a stick, putting the full functions of apersonal computer on a device the size of aUSB memory stick , manufactured by theNorwegian -based hardware and software for-profitstartup company FXI Technologies (also referred to as just "FXI Tech ").
Cotton Candy is a low-powerARM architecture CPU based computer which uses dual-core processors such as the dual-core 1.2 GHzExynos 4210 (45 nmARM Cortex-A9 with 1MB L2 cache)system on a chip (SoC) bySamsung , featuring a quad-core 200 MHz ARMMali-400 MP GPUOpenGL ES 2.0 capable 2D/3Dgraphics processing unit , an audio and video decoder hardware engine, andTrustZone Cryptographic Engine and Security Accelerator (CESA) co-processor. The platform is said to be able to stream and decodeH.264 1080p content, and be able to use desktop-class interfaces such asKDE orGNOME under Linux.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15]
FXI Technologies claims it will run bothAndroid 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich ) and the latestUbuntu Desktop Linux operating systems, leveragingLinaro builds andLinux kernel optimizations.[ 5] [ 6] [ 16]
As of 13 September 2012, FXI started to ship to those that pre-ordered devices. At the time of writing (November 2013), the Cotton Candy is generally available. FXI have also made a Beta android ICS image and Beta Linux image available for download.[ 17]
On 16 of July 2014, FXI declared bankruptcy.[ 18] [citation needed
In January 2012 the Cotton Candy made it to the top-10 finalist at the "Last Gadget Standing " new technology competition atCES 2012 .[ 19] [ 20] Readers’ Choice for Best of CES 2012 " award.[ 21] Top 10 Gadgets Launched @ CES 2012 ".[ 22]
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