14.Feb.2003
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Genesi Announces New Pegasos Computer for CeBIT Release
Plexuscom and Genesi to Cooperate on PegasosPPC
Paris, France and Taipei Hsien, Taiwan February 14, 2003. Plexuscom a designer
and manufacture of broadband Internet access solutions and appliances has
reached an agreement with Genesi Sarl to produce and deliver limited quantities
of the PegasosPPC computer for release at CeBIT 2003. Genesi and Plexuscom will
share a booth at CeBIT, 12-19 March in Hannover, Germany.
"We are very pleased to work with Plexuscom on the Pegasos," said Gerald Carda,
Chief Technology Officer of Genesi. "Through this partnership, we look forward
to greater collaboration in development and marketing efforts. Plexuscom's
expertise in development and manufacturing technologies and Genesi's system
design and architecture will be combined to promote an exciting alternative
platform for the Micro-ATX marketplace."
"The two companies share a common vision. That is, to create products that are
designed to achieve exceptional performance while reducing per-unit costs and
time-to-market," commented John Tseng, President of Plexuscom. "Our first
priority at Plexuscom continues to be our customers, and we are confident that
by aligning with a partner like Genesi, we will rapidly expand our position
globally and customers will benefit from the performance, flexibility and
scalability of these new system capabilities."
The Pegasos MicroATX features
The Pegasos MicroPPC is a small, low power PowerPC motherboard with the
following features:
- Takes Single or Dual PowerPC RISC CPU (G3 or G4)
- Supplied with 600 MHz IBM G3
- Mai Logic Articia with bplan April2 Northbridge
- VIA Southbridge
- AGP X2 slot
- 3 X PCI slots
- ATA100 with two channels with up to four ATA devices
- 3 X Firewire
- 10/100 MBit Ethernet
- Audio I/O
- SPDIF Out
- 4 X USB
- Parallel
- Serial
- PS2 Keyboard
- PS2 Mouse
- Riser connector
- OpenFirmware based BIOS
- Supplied with MorphOS, Debian Linux and Mac-on-Linux
- Other operating systems in development.
Genesi and the Pegasos, Innovation for the Future
Genesi is a technology development and system integration engineering company
located in Frankfurt, Germany, Paris, France and headquartered in Luxembourg.
Genesi also operates through wholly owned subsidiaries in the United Sates and
the United Kingdom, Genesi USA Inc. and Genesi UK Ltd. In addition to the
Pegasos, Genesi has also developed the new operating system, MorphOS, for
PowerPC microprocessors. Designed for the Pegasos, MorphOS is a highly
responsive, low overhead, desktop system, which runs hundreds of different
applications.
Plexuscom, A Technology Power House
Plexuscom designs, manufactures, markets and delivers broadband Internet access
solutions, Information appliance and USB peripherals.
Plexuscom's extraordinary commitment to customer needs is evidenced by its
devotion to the production of customized products for diverse regional markets.
Plexuscom is dedicated to the development of easy-to-use, reliable,
low-maintenance and affordable high-speed solution for worldwide markets.
Plexuscom's strategic objective is to remain a market leader the development,
implementation, supply and support of broadband Internet access, information
appliance solutions, and USB peripherals.
Contact Information:
Plexuscom Contact:
John Tseng
john.tseng@plexuscom.com.tw
http://www.plexuscom.com
Genesi Contact:
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
bbrv@genesi.lu
http://www.pegasosppc.com (ps)
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