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Genesi

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International technology and consulting group

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.2 It is headquartered in San Antonio.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jan 3, 2003Founded1
  • Industrycomputer hardware industry1
  • HeadquartersSan Antonio1
  • Websitegenesi.company
  • Legal formcorporation1

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.2

Products and brands

  • computer hardware

Listed on Wikidata.1

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

Aura – A comprehensive abstraction layer for embedded and desktop devices, with UEFI and IEEE1275. Desktop systems with AGP or PCI/PCI Express may take advantage of an embedded x86/BIOS emulator providing boot functionality for standard graphics cards

EFIKA MX53

EFIKA MX6

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Discontinued products

EFIKA MX Smarttop – A highly energy efficient and compact computing device (complete system) powered by a Freescale ARM iMX515 CPU

EFIKA MX Smartbook – A 10″ smartbook (complete system) powered by the Freescale ARM iMX515 CPU

High Density Blade – PowerPC based high density blade server

Home Media Center – PowerPC based digital video recorder

EFIKA 5200B – A small Open Firmware-based motherboard powered by a Freescale MPC5200B SoC processor with 128 MB RAM, a 44-pin ATA connector for a 2.5" hard drive, sound in/out, USB, Ethernet, serial port, and a PCI slot

Open Client – thin clients available with Freescale's Power Architecture or ARM SoCs

Pegasos – An Open Firmware-based MicroATX motherboard powered by a PowerPC G3/G4 microprocessor, featuring PCI slots, AGP, Ethernet, USB, DDR and FireWire

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Genesi, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Jan 3, 2003Founded Founded1

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