Iyonix PC - Definition and Overview

The Iyonix PC is an Acorn-clone personal computer from Castle Technology Ltd.

Features include:

• Intel XScale (StrongARM) 80321 600MHz 32 bit processor
• two 64 bit and two 32 bit PCI ports
• RISC OS version 5 in hardware ROM module
• support for the Linux operating system [1] (http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact673.html)

Being the first substantial new computer for the Acorn RISC OS/ARM platform since the Risc PC, the Iyonix PC fills a key position for RISC OS users. It is comparable with what the Phoebe PC should have been had Acorn not chosen in 1998 to withdraw from the personal-computer market.

The Iyonix also happens to be ideal for developing ARM-based PDA applications.

Units first went on sale in December 2002.

External links

• Iyonix website (http://www.iyonix.com/)
• Iyonix Review (http://www.drobe.co.uk/features/artifact504.html) (part two here (http://www.drobe.co.uk/features/artifact675.html))
• Iyonix Review (http://www.iconbar.com/hardware/iyonix/part1)