This should eventually help companies such as Marvell, who reported lower HDD earnings due to lower HDD builds and thus less demand for their HDD controller and other chips.
Grid Friendly Appliance Controller: Developed at the Pacific Northwest energy Laboratory, the Grid Friendly Appliance controller senses grid conditions by monitoring the frequency of the system and provides automatic demand response in times of disruption.
The housing for the HDMI stick has been moved to the rear of the controller and the stick itself now supports an expandable 32GB MicroSD card slot in response to overwhelming demand.