Sunday, May 24, 2015

World's First 9$ Computer named CHIP


C.H.I.P a tiny computer by Next Thing Co. It comes with a 1Ghz processor, 512 mb RAM and 4gb of storage. It has built in Wi-fi and Bluetooth and can be used to connect to things wirelessly. C.H.I.P comes with an open source operating system and has thousands of apps built for it. LibreOffice, Chromium browser, Torrent and lots more. It even runs Linux and is capable of handling full GUI as it handles other hardware attached to it. Pocket Chip an open source hardware which can be used with C.H.I.P. The pocket Chip has a 4.3" inches touch screen with QWERTY keyboard. It even has GPIO breakouts which makes it easy to connect to other hardware devices using PocketChip. It mostly does all computer sort of things. The company says that it will be available for everyone in early next year. It is considered as a rival for most developed manufacturers like Raspberry pi.#IIEE