At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Marvell showed a Plug Computer small enough to plug directly into a wall socket, designed to draw so little power that it can be left on all of the time. Unlike other embedded devices in the home, it contains a GHertz class processor.

The SheevaPlug development platform uses a Marvell Kirkwood processor based on an embedded 1.2GHz Sheeva CPU equipped with 512 Mbytes of FLASH and 512 Mbytes of DRAM.

“Plug computing is a logical evolution for the digital home in the same way enterprise applications moved from servers to network appliances,” says Hajime Nakai, Director, Member of the Board, Buffalo.