MangoPi, the company dedicated to creating mini computers, has just shown its new product, which is smaller than an SD card. We are going to discover all the details regarding this product.
Have a pocket computer with enough power for daily use? Some would say a dream, others would say a goal, and a reality for a fewwho never stop trying.
MangoPi, a company known for creating mini computers, has presented on his Twitter account a new product, which is surprisingly smaller than an SD memory card.
On his Twitter account, They have shown us some images of this productin which they also tell us that it is capable of taking an image with a resolution of 1080p and a refresh rate of 60 Hz, the standard for today’s computers, through an HDMI connection.
This is something quite interesting, and although it does not reach the levels of other companies such as Raspberry, with its Pi 4 model, but which also is more than enough for a normal user.
It’s smaller than an SD card, and it runs (Tina-Linux) 1080p60 via HDMI 😍next step, #armbian pic.twitter.com/iGxqgkMeiE
— MangoPi SBC🐧 (@mangopi_sbc) March 26, 2022
Remember that an SD card is 32mm x 24mm in size, which is tiny, and being able to have a product that outputs such a high resolution, with so little space, is a real wonder.
Compared to, for example, the Rapsberry Pi Zero 2 W, we get a micro computer of an even smaller size, and without loss and even improvement in terms of power.
They tell us that Tina-Linux runs, all thanks to an Allwinner H616 chip, which has 4 ARM Cortex-A53 cores, and that supports up to 4 GB of RAMwith DDR4/DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR technology.
Together with the GPU, it can support OpenGL ES 3.2/2.0/1.0, Vulkan 1.1 and OpenCL 2.0 technologies. It also supports SD 3.0 technology, which allows us to use microSD cards, and with SDHC and SDXC compatibility. It also incorporates an 8-bit NAND Flash interface.
The resolution that this device can achieve, as we have mentioned before, is 1080p60 through HDMI class, and the video engine can play and decode H.264, H.265 and VP9 formats. also supports 10-bit HDRand support for two digital audio channels.
As for wireless connections, it has support for a 100 Mbps Ethernet port, but at the moment there is no compatible internal hardware for the use of WiFi, although you can use external hardware for it. It also has 3 USB 2.0 ports.
Regarding its security, it supports FDE (Full Disk Encryption, Full Disk Encryption) and the following encryption and decryption algorithms; AES, DES, 3DES and XTS. As well integrates EFUSE, which allows the use of identification chip and security applications.
In turn, it is also possible to use MD5, SHA and HMAC to protect against tamperingin addition to having a 160 bit hardware to generate pseudorandom numbers.
Regarding availability and price we do not have any information, but we will inform you when we know more about this product.
It is interesting to see how companies of this type continue to try endlessly to create the smallest possible computers without compromising power, as for example Raspberry also does. and we hope that it will continue advancing at these levels, since a very important technological segment could be created.
George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism