Genesi is an international group of technology and consulting companies in the United States, Mexico and Germany. It is most widely known for designing and manufacturing ARM architecture and Power ISA-based computing devices. The Genesi Group consists of Genesi USA Inc., Genesi Americas LLC, Genesi Europe UG, Red Efika, bPlan GmbH and the affiliated non-profit organization Power2People.
As of 2012, Genesi was an official Linaro partner
Products
The main products of Genesi are ARM-based computers that were designed to be inexpensive, quiet and highly energy efficient, and a custom
Open Firmware compliant
firmware. All products can run a multitude of operating systems.
Current products
Discontinued products
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EFIKA MX Smarttop – A highly energy efficient and compact computing device (complete system) powered by a Freescale ARM iMX515 CPU
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EFIKA MX Smartbook – A 10″ smartbook (complete system) powered by the Freescale ARM iMX515 CPU
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High Density Blade – PowerPC based high density blade server
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Home Media Center – PowerPC based digital video recorder
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EFIKA 5200B – A small Open Firmware-based motherboard powered by a Freescale MPC5200B system-on-a-chip processor with 128 MB RAM, a 44-pin AT Attachment connector for a 2.5" hard drive, sound in/out, USB, Ethernet, serial port, and a PCI slot
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Open Client – available with Freescale's Power Architecture or ARM SoCs
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Genesi Pegasos – An Open Firmware-based MicroATX motherboard powered by a PowerPC G3/G4 microprocessor, featuring PCI slots, AGP, Ethernet, USB, DDR SDRAM and FireWire
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Open Desktop Workstation – A Pegasos II based computer featuring a Freescale PowerPC 7447 processor. Complete specifications for the hardware are available through Genesi's PowerDeveloper.org website
Community support
Genesi designed and maintains PowerDeveloper,
an online platform for Genesi products and ARM products from other manufacturers. Via the PowerDeveloper Projects programs, hundreds of systems
have been provided to the PowerDeveloper community so far, thereby supporting open source development in many countries. Linux distributions that directly benefited from the programs include but are not limited to
CRUX,
Debian,
Raspbian, Fedora,
Gentoo Linux,
openSuSE and Ubuntu.
Genesi once funded the development of the MorphOS operating system but shifted its focus towards Linux in 2004. However, as of 2011, Genesi remains the main supporter of the operating system and continues to actively support its user and developer communities via the MorphZone
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