US company Marvell Technology Group haslaunched a computer that fits in a plug socketwhich can be used as a home server.
The SheevaPlug, uses less than 10% of the power of a typical
home PC or server.
"The Plug Computer is one of the more amazing technologies that
have come out this decade and it has the potential to change the
world," said Rob Enderle principal analyst at Enderle Group. "The
open plug platform gives European developers the opportunity to
create applications, services, and solutions that are only limited
by their imaginations."
It uses a Marvell Kirkwood processor based on an embedded 1.2GHz
Sheev CPU equipped with 512Mbytes of flash memory and 512Mbytes of
DRam. It is designed to plug directly into a standard wall socket
and idraw less than one tenth of the power of a typical PC being
used as a home server.
