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Cotton Candy Common manufacturers
ARM Holdings Design firm FXI Technologies Introduced Cotton Candy November 17, 2011 (2011-11-17 )
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[2] Cost ~US$199 ERP Type
Single-board computer Processor
Samsung
Exynos 4210 Frequency 1.2 GHz Memory 1 GB DRAM Coprocessor
Mali-400 MP GPU VFPv3 (VFP/FPU) NEON SIMD Hardware Audio / Video Decoder
Thumb-2 inst. set
Jazelle DBX
Jazelle RCT
TrustZone CESA Ports
HDMI 1.3a WiFi 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR USB 2.0 host/device Micro USB MicroSD SDXC slot Weight 21 g (0.74 oz) Dimensions 80 mm (3.1 in) (h) 25 mm (0.98 in) (w) 10 mm (0.39 in) (d)
The Cotton Candy is a very small, fanless
single-board computer on a stick, putting the full functions of a
personal computer on a device the size of a
USB memory stick , manufactured by the
Norwegian -based hardware and software for-profit
startup company FXI Technologies (also referred to as just "FXI Tech ").
Overview
Cotton Candy is a low-power
ARM architecture
CPU based computer which uses dual-core processors such as the dual-core 1.2 GHz
Exynos 4210 (45 nm
ARM Cortex-A9 with 1MB L2 cache)
system on a chip (SoC) by
Samsung , featuring a quad-core 200
MHz ARM
Mali-400 MP GPU
OpenGL ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D
graphics processing unit , an audio and video decoder hardware engine, and
TrustZone Cryptographic Engine and Security Accelerator (CESA) co-processor. The platform is said to be able to stream and decode
H.264
1080p content, and be able to use desktop-class interfaces such as
KDE or
GNOME under Linux.
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FXI Technologies claims it will run both
Android 4.0 (
Ice Cream Sandwich ) and the latest
Ubuntu Desktop
Linux operating systems, leveraging
Linaro builds and
Linux kernel optimizations.
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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.
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On 16 of July 2014, FXI declared bankruptcy.
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citation needed ]
Reception
In January 2012 the Cotton Candy made it to the top-10 finalist at the "Last Gadget Standing " new technology competition at
CES 2012 .
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[20] Also at CES 2012, LaptopMag.com made Cotton Candy a top-10 finalist for its "Readers’ Choice for Best of CES 2012 " award.
[21] EFYTimes News Network as well named FXI Technologies Cotton Candy a "Top 10 Gadgets Launched @ CES 2012 ".
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See also
Exynos , system-on-a-chip by Samsung used in Cotton Candy
References
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"FXI's Cotton Candy could turn every screen you own into a cloud client" . Engadget.com . Retrieved 2016-07-16 .
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"FXI Technology Cotton Candy Cstick - PC & Network Downloads - PCWDLD.com" . Fxitech.com . 12 January 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-16 .
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"FXI Cotton Candy Demo: More Power than You Can Shake a (Thumb) Stick at" . Anandtech.com . Retrieved 2016-07-16 .
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"FXI Introduces Cotton Candy – Dual-core Android Device Inside a USB Stick" . Phandroid.com . 2011-11-18. Retrieved 2016-07-16 .
^ Lee, Kevin (2011-11-18).
"Meet Cotton Candy, the Dual-Core Android USB Device" . PCWorld. Archived from
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^ Julian Horsey (2011-11-18).
"FXI Cotton Candy USB Stick Transforms Any Screen In To An Android System" . Geeky-gadgets.com . Retrieved 2016-07-16 .
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"FXI's Cotton Candy- USB Device with Difference" . Newgadget.org . 2011-11-21. Archived from
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"Samsung readies dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 SoC with GPS - News - Linux for Devices" . Archive.is . Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2016-07-16 . {{
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"Top 10 Gadgets Launched @ CES 2012" . Archived from
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