14-Feb-2003: 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 manufactures 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 600MHz 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 www.pegasosppc.com
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