The computer hardware realm ’s raceway to the microscopic preserve , as General Micro Systems debut the globe ’s smallest single - instrument panel information processing system ( SBC ) . Codenamed Spider , the whole estimator takes up less place than a credit card , and consumes a scant 4 watts of power when running at full tilt . Given the computer ’s teentsy size of it , its specs are damn impressive : 2 Ethernet ports , 256 Mbytes of DDR SDRAM , and 256 kbytes of L2 cache . ( Layman ’s translation : A mint better than the Dell you bought in 2001 . ) It ’s a developers ’ plaything , sure , but it ’s throttle to scent up in your nomadic handset preferably or later . truthful eccentric can govern their very own Spider , start at $ 300 — if you ’re uncoerced to order in majority .
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