New Hyperion Entertainment Website http://a-eon.com/ - The Mystery Continues

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Humm...a computer that has not one but many processors? The Xcore/other cpu combo theory would make sense.   The first Amiga was based on mutiple chips doing a specific job and speaking to each other while PCs and alike worked on the basis of giving all the tasks to the CPU. (its just brain storming, no nerdy-techno flames needed plz)

A machine like that could surely bust into the market if its programmable and modifiable on the fly when new apps/idea are found.

Could this computer be made compatible for say..playing the latest PC games whitout being a windows PC while keeping your favorite apps on AmigaOS?  Best of both worlds?  Who drugged my coffee?  

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My current bet is that the CPU is something in the Xilinx Virtex 5 family. The two PowerPC 440 cores explains the 8 x 25% hint and the ability to host soft cores in the FPGA would explain the more recent comment about cores "No, it doesn't have the number of cores you are thinking of. Whatever number you are thinking of. At least, not necessarily." The dual core Virtex 5 support 3 or 4 PCIe endpoints (depending on the model) and from what I understand each endpoint supports 8 PCIe lanes, so it would seem to match the slots (assuming two endpoints can be ganged together for a single x16 card).
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Nah, it's gonna be one of those ppc chips with everything integrated onto the die deals with some cool goodies on the bus. Probably would have had all this years ago if it weren't for Amiga Inc cock blocking all these years.

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It has a CF reader. You can punch one and try

Now for the serious question: Does anybody have experience with the XMOS chip? It looks very nice, but what it is capable of?
I undertand that as it uses a parallel architecture, I should not take the 400Mips speed as I would do for an ARM fo example, but is it fast enough for data processing, or it is just something I could use for minor tasks?
Would it make the difference or would it better to rely on raw CPU power instead?

It's a low power embedded processor with 64kb sram that probably won't be utilized because it doesn't actually add anything of value to a desktop system. If it was stuffed onto a PCI-e card for the PC folks would laugh at it and the company that made it would go out of business.

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@Crom00

$1000 = 700 euro .....

700 euro isnt enough to buy you a complete Sam440 system, let alone this a-eon thing.

The A-Eon thing comes with a packet of white grease you can apply to the one foot heat sink pole on the XCore processor. The idea is that then end user sits and spins on it while nobody writes applications for it.

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A voice of reason in the middle of madness.

Does this mean you're not gonna buy a x1000 system and develop useless demo programs for the XCore embedded processor?

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Somebody explain what a low powered embedded system can do for me?  Why would I want one?  What can it do better than a regular desktop PC?

Nothing, well, nothing worth writing home about. To top it off, adopters of the x1000 will still have to stuff a mac/windows or linux machine on the desk just to compile their XC programs. LOL

And they'll probably have to buy one of the dev boards from XMOS too unless the gracious folks at hyperion decide to put an xtag header on a slot in the back of the computer.