Iyonix PC

Iyonix PC
Iyonix front, showing drives (CD-RW, floppy disk), power button, reset button, LEDs, USB ports
DeveloperCastle Technology
ManufacturerCastle Technology
Release date22 October 2002 (2002-10-22)[1]
Discontinued30 September 2008 (2008-09-30)[2][3][4]
MediaCD-RW, floppy disk
Operating systemRISC OS, Linux
CPUARMv5 XScale
GraphicsNvidia video card
PredecessorRisc PC, A9home
SuccessorTouch Book, ARMini
Websiteiyonix.com

The Iyonix PC was an Acorn-clone personal computer sold by Castle Technology and Iyonix Ltd between 2002 and 2008. According to news site Slashdot, it was the first personal computer to use Intel's XScale processor.[5] It ran RISC OS 5.[6]

  1. ^ Mr J Sawyer (22 October 2002). "Iyonix at RISC OS South-East". Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.announce. Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  2. ^ Holwerda, Thom (29 September 2008). "Iyonix Range Taken Off the Market". OSNews. Retrieved 18 August 2011. A huge blow to the already small RISC OS market and community: Castle Technology has announced that the Iyonix range of ARM-based RISC OS computers will be taken off the market after 30th September.
  3. ^ "IYONIX Ltd" (Press release). 25 September 2008. Archived from the original on 9 December 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2011 – via Drobe. IOYONIX Ltd would like to announce that from the 30th September 2008 it will not be possible to order an IYONIX computer.
  4. ^ John Ballance (30 September 2008). "IYONIX Press Release". Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.announce. Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  5. ^ Chamberlain, Ian (7 December 2002). "First Desktop Computer To Use Intel's XScale". Slashdot. Retrieved 9 January 2012. "Drobe, the leading RISC OS portal, has reported the release of Iyonix, the first desktop computer to use Intel's XScale processor.
  6. ^ Proven, Liam (20 October 2006). "RISC OS six appears, only a couple of years late". The Inquirer. Archived from the original on 6 November 2009. Retrieved 28 June 2011. RO5 [...] appeared at the end of 2002. [...] put together a new, 32-bit ARM machine, the Iyonix.