MorphOS for Sam460

[Iggy]

@ itix

When did bigfoot become 'trollolol'?

@ everyone in general - lotta buzz for a port to an obscure, overpriced Italian motherboard

[Iggy]

Reason being only one platform (the Peg-II) can currently run OS4 and MOS, and that's not available and somewhat limited (no RadeonHD, PCI/AGP only etc.). Having another machine which can be bought and which runs both can only be a good thing, in my opinion.

Supporting the X5000 would be a better move, imho.
Future Sam460 availability is questionable.
Acube really needs to reconsider is processor choices.
Applied Micro CPUs are just too weak.
A 1.4 GHz e5500 cored T1020 would not significantly raise board costs, it would be faster, and dual core.

[Iggy]

I dont know how successful ACube has been with their business plan but I believe they cant choose any random CPU. SAM is industrial product for industrial customers.

Does Acube use a plan?
They seem devoted to using processors from one company who's product line is remarkably unimpressive.

I don't understand the logic in it. AMCC is much harder to deal with than Freescale Semi.

They must be getting these devices at a really low cost, which really highlights their extreme mark up.
Limited production numbers can only excuse so much.

[Iggy]

Acube do not have a massive mark-up at all... component costs are only a small part of the production costs of boards like this

It's been a very long time since anyone got rich off the Amiga, unfortunately

Then at the volumes produced, Acube can't be earning much at all.
On gets the impression that A-eon and Acube do boards in really low volume (50 or so per run?).

[Iggy]

Or maybe they have found a customer that just need it. There is UMTS/GSM module what certainly is not designed to Amiga market.

Makes sense to me, an embedded application that would use a SAM in some kind of mobile application..

I'll stick with my G5s.

[Iggy]

I read somewhere that the lowest volume Acube will do is about 50 unit though I have no idea how many are in typical run.  I beleive that if some placed a minimum order they would still produce the original Sam440ep ITX version.
Various comment from Trevor suggest the lowest A-EON have done is about 100 or so.

So yes small numbers.

And thus their pricing IS forgivable.
They are an asset to the community.
And I think Trevor is just enjoying the hell out of his work.