Stick PC

A stick PC is a device which has independent CPUs or processing chips and which does not rely on another computer.

A stick PC can be connected to a peripheral device such as a monitor, TV, or kiosk display to produce visual or audio output.

It was based on the idea of making a PC similar in size to that of an average stick of chewing gum.

[1] As the popularity of smart TVs and set-top boxes to view streaming services (such as the Roku) grew, companies started looking at making these small computers even smaller and easier to use.

[10] In July 2017, Intel released the Movidius Neural Compute Stick which included a Vision Processing Unit for vision-specific AI workload.

The Intel Compute Stick
The idea behind the creation of the Gumstix (on the left): a PC around the size of a stick of gum. There is an extension module on the right