CuBox
 i.MX6-based CuBox (2014)
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| Common manufacturers | Marvell or Freescale Semiconductor |
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| Design firm | SolidRun |
| Introduced |
CuBox 11 December 2011 |
| Cost | €99EURO (~US$135) |
| Type | Single-board computer |
| Processor | Marvell Armada 510 ARMv7 or i.MX6 |
| Frequency | From 800 MHz and upwards |
| Memory | From 1 GB and upwards |
| Coprocessor | VFPv3 (VFP/FPU) WMMX / WMMX2 SIMD vMeta Video Decoder Vivante GC600 GPU Two XOR/DMA Engines and PDMA TrustZone CESA PMU (Power Management Unit) |
| Ports |
HDMI 1.3 with CEC S/PDIF (optical output) 1000baseT Ethernet 2 x USB 2.0 host ports 1 x eSATA (3 Gbit/sec) IrDA (InfraRed) receiver MicroUSB (console only) MicroSD slot (comes with 2 GB MicroSD SDXC, upgradable to 64 GB) |
| Power consumption | 3 W @ 5 V/2 A DC |
| Weight | ~91 g |
| Dimensions | 55 × 55 × 42 mm |
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.
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.
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