We are designing our next products now. They are based on the Freescale i.mx53. The goal is to produce a low-cost board that can be sold as a single board solution, a desktop, a laptop and a tablet (we could say a smarttop, a smartbook, and a smarttablet, but you get the idea). Currently, our cost for producing the Efika MX smarttop is more than $100 (USD). For the smartbook, it is more than $200 (USD). We need to develop systems that have half the cost. We hope to have the first i.mx53 boards to the team next month (go Gerald!). Our feeling is that the greatest barrier to increased Internet use for the majority of the world's population is cost.

Our business model is somewhat different than others in the industry.
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Cloud computing will essentially define computing as we all know it.

7 Dec 2010

Eric Schmidt

CEO Google

Google is doing it again: Google Unveils Chrome OS, Notebook Pilot Program. The 'Nexus One' of netbooks is coming (every setback is a learning opportunity). The Google Netbook is a little bigger than the Efika MX Smartbook. It has a 12.1" vs. 10.1" display and a full sized keyboard. The Efika MX runs on ARM; the Google netbook does not. The message is: it does not matter.
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It was nice last week to be finally recognized by Linaro: Genesi donates 55 ARM netbooks to Linaro developers. If Linaro can help solve the problems of fragmentation in Linux for ARM this will be a great thing. We will continue to do what we can to assist in the effort.

The Efika MX Smartbook & Linaro Developers at UDS

Looking ahead, we are going to be emphasizing ArmHardFloat: ArmHardFloatPort. Progress is be made: Auto-Build Status.
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