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https://www.xmos.com/products/xs1-l-family/l1lq64 is the information on the Xena chip.  Note the prices at the right-hand column of the page.
 

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Re: Hyperion/A-EON introduce us to the AmigaOne X1000. A new beginning?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 03:27:34 PM »
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sofar i have seen xmos chips might be used to controll lcd display modules, say large lcd displays could be controlled by clusters of these chips. if there is going to be any easy out of the box solution for achieving something like that using amigaos and this mobo (and maybe hollywood) it might be interesting for me. i see no other advantage atm.

With a few custom interrupt handlers, anything interrupt driven will be accelerated by the new Xena chip.  The fact that it doesn't have to store its registers while processing those interrupts will make it preferred over other interrupt solutions.
 

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Re: Hyperion/A-EON introduce us to the AmigaOne X1000. A new beginning?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2010, 11:02:51 PM »
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There you go: https://www.xmos.com/store 99 US$ for that.

And Atmel sets can be pretty cheap, too. Cypress even gives some of their PSoC kits away for free (at least I paid nothing). The days dev kits for embedded chips were insanly expensive are mostly over.

I think the XCore chip on the X1000 is wired to the main memory bus in such a way that it can be a slave processor for replacing interrupts with.  The author of the Radeon drivers for OS 4 said as much on this amigaworld.net thread.  See post #21.
 

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Re: Hyperion/A-EON introduce us to the AmigaOne X1000. A new beginning?
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2010, 02:17:26 AM »
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Hans isn't an official OS4 radeon driver writer as far as I know. I followed that thread and I read his post as his interpretation of what the XMOS is. Not factual knowledge.

http://hdrlab.org.nz/ is his webpage.  He's writing the Radeon HD series drivers for AOS 4 as you can see from there.  Do you think he is doing this on an unofficial capacity or something?