PC is coming soon ... wall mounted

Jade Integration - a company based in Newcastle, UK - will launch a PC just as small as a wall outlet next month.

AMD chips are used in Jack PC

Fully integrated with the necessary electronic devices but the Jack PC - as its name implies - is just as small as a wall outlet. The whole PC has a medium layout on two circuit boards. Using AMD RISC microprocessor helps PC Jack reduce energy consumption and heat source during operation. In fact, the consumable Jack PC power level is only equivalent to a PC with medium to low power consumption.

Jade Integration CEO Andy MacLellan said low energy consumption is one of the breakthroughs that Jack PC has made. " A typical PC consumes about 80 watts of power, whereas Jack PC consumes only 5 Watt. That's why it makes a huge difference in operating costs ."

The entire Jack PC system was developed by Chip PC Technologies - a company specializing in a field called "post-PC technologies".

MacLellan said Chip PC Technologies successfully developed the first Jack PC about a year ago and researched it to improve it.

" PC Jacks can be used as regular PCs on conventional power supplies ," MacLellan said. " Or you can use the power supplied via Ethernet ."

A PC Jack without a monitor and keyboard costs around 209 pounds. The low cost and low energy consumption make MacLellan believe its new device will be one of the biggest successes the PC industry has had in the past few years. This is also the most compact PC that can replace ordinary PCs, an effective solution for modern businesses.

PC Jack runs Windows CE operating system and is designed to be able to connect to any server environment. Besides, Jack PC is also equipped with INternet Explorer 6.0 browser, capable of supporting multiple monitors - digital signal monitor or analog signal, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 16-bit audio output port, signal output port 24-bit image effect. The maximum processing speed of a PC Jack processor can be up to 500MHz - or the equivalent of an 1.286 xGHz chip with 64MB of internal memory and 128MB of RAM.

Although the PC Jack itself has lower power consumption than conventional PC systems, if users want to run many different applications, they need to connect to another server. This may increase energy consumption.

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