A stick PC or PC on a stick is a single-board computer in a small elongated casing resembling a stick, that can usually be plugged directly (without an HDMI cable) on an HDMI video port. A stick PC is a device which has independent CPU or processing chips and which does not rely on another computer. It should not be confused with passive storage devices such as thumb drives.
A stick PC can be connected to a peripheral device such as a monitor, TV, or kiosk display to produce visual or audio output.
Video Stick PC
History
As smart TVs and the popularity of set-top boxes to view streaming services (such as the Roku) grew, companies started looking at making these small computers even smaller and easier to use.
2013-2014 saw several manufacturers come out with Stick PCs. MeeGoPad released the first x86 based Stick PC, featuring the Intel© Atom(TM) Z3735F Processor. In April 2013, Tronsmart released the MK908, using the Rockchip RK3188 (featuring the quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 and ARM Mali-400MP GPU).On July 24 2013, Google introduced the Google Chromecast., a streaming device similar in function and design to a stick PC.On November 19, 2014, Amazon released a smaller version of the Fire TV called the Fire TV Stick.
In March 2015, Asus and Google introduced the Chromebit, a stick PC based on the Rockchip RK3288 SoC and running Google's Chrome OS.
in 2016, Intel introduced the Intel Compute Stick.
Some other examples of Stick PCs are: The Android Mini PC MK802 series from Rikomagic, using Android or GNU/Linux distributions, both based on Linux and Allwinner Technology or Rockchip SoC, and the Cotton Candy, using Samsung Exynos SoC,
Maps Stick PC
See also
- Comparison of single-board computers
References
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