Chip PC presents Jack PC, a wall socket of 3.4 inches² with 4 USB and a connector for a screen (VGA or DVI-I). Great for industry, for companies: everybody does not need a desktop.

Obviously, it's a terminal, not a complete workstation, and it's necessary to have a big centralized server behind this. Nevertheless, this terminal includes:

• processor AMD Alchemy AU1550 with a maximal frequency of 500 MHz. It's a RISC microprocessor, often used in the embedded world. Even the frequency is smaller than the processors we used to work with, it's a processor that has the same capacities than an Intel running at 1 GHz.
• max. 64 Mb FLASH memory (same type than USB memory-sticks)
• max. 128 Mb RAM

• max. 8 Mb video memory
• audio I/O
• 5 W of power consumption
• connection to current and LAN network via the wall, directly
• Operating System: Windows CE .Net + Internet Explorer 6
• Price: between 400 and 650 USD ...
  

Source: 01net, 3 days ago (even if this products exists since 7 months ;)

For those who do not know:
- An embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls. Unlike a general-purpose computer, such as a personal computer, an embedded system performs pre-defined tasks, usually with very specific requirements. Since the system is dedicated to a specific task, design engineers can optimize it, reducing the size and cost of the product. Embedded systems are often mass-produced, so the cost savings may be multipled by millions of items. Examples: routers, navigation systems, mobile phones, etc.
- Reduced Instruction Set Computer, or RISC, is a microprocessor CPU design philosophy that favors a simpler set of instructions that all take about the same amount of time to execute. The most common RISC microprocessors are AVR, PIC, ARM, DEC Alpha, PA-RISC, SPARC, MIPS, and IBM's PowerPC. RISC is often compared to CISC microprocessors (x86, ...)