The Intel Compute Stick is a small form factor device, powered by a quad-core Intel Atom processor, 
that includes a USB port and a micro-SD card slot. The promise of the Intel Compute Stick is that it can plug into any HDMI TV and turn it into a full computing device.
The Intel Compute stick first launched with Microsoft Windows 8.1, and now it’s getting Ubuntu Linux.
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