So what is XMOS good for?

[Tripitaka]

Newsflash POWER PC is dead. You can add all the off the shelf components you want to it, but its still dead, dead dead at its core...
 
Steven

Looked inside a PS3 did you?  .....hmmm, well, what did you see? Oh yes, one of them. Don't look dead to me buddy! Got a 360? yeah, in that one too......geesh, glad your not my doctor.

[Tripitaka]

@ Piru

Please justify your comments. "No" is meaningless without an explanation.

[Tripitaka]

@ Koaftder

Cool stuff, good to see someone on the thread with some hands on knowledge of the chip.
So, rather than dwelling on what can't be done, please tell us a bit about your experience,  what have you done with the chip so far?

[Tripitaka]

Thanks Piru, that's a fair answer. Looks like an NVidia or ATI chip may have been a better choice, at least CUDA, physX etc.. have some worthwhile uses.

[Tripitaka]

Let's not forget that the XMOS has the Xorro slot available. What about a Xorro board with, say 8 sockets for XMOS chips (so they can be added as required) and a socket linking to another box with more Xorro slots each with a board with 8 sockets...etc...

This is an untried chip for desktop computing so I refuse to write it off quite yet.

[Tripitaka]

Well that's a bit sad isn't it. TBH I would have rather have seen a GPU in the space for the XMOS but as it is, the X1000 is still the fastest hardware Amiga OS can run on. That's something we should all at least be a little happy about.

BTW, love the value avatar.

I'm going over to Amigaworld forum now to see if anyone from Hyperion has made any comment that reflects the issues in this thread, I'll let you all know if I find anything positive.