A new custom based Amiga. I know it sounds crazy, but I think people love Amiga as it is with custom chips.
There’s nothing special about Amiga’s custom chip when you have various modern PCs that are equipped with VPU/GPU/APU/SPP/DSP/IGP supporting processors.
PS; 'Crappy' PCs are equipped with less supporting processors.
PC BIOS and OS abstraction layers has basically shielded it’s users from different PC hardware designs that is available in the mainstream market.
Its something else to have a new Amiga computer, than a PC motherboard with PPC on it.
Does Marvell’s NB supports X86 processors?
Note that you mentioned some mainstream PC based technologies i.e.
USB 2.0, PCI, AGP, SD-RAM
Compare your specs to AmigaOne (plus add-ons)
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AAA+ custom chips
3D customable chip
ColdFireV4 220MHz
Kickstart 4.0
USB 2.0 as standard
PCI
AGP
SD-RAM
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MAI logic’s Articia S.
ATI Radeon 9100 VPU (with programmable shaders).
PowerPC G4 1Ghz
UBoot BIOS
USB 1.1
AGP
SD-RAM
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One could write tons of paper on the differences between nForce2 vs i865/875 vs VIA KT600 and 'etc', but its the PC’s abstracting layers makes them 'feel' similar.
To illustrate my point,
1. AMD K7 Athlon’s bus is based on a non-X86 DEC’s Alpha EV6 bus architecture yet it 'feels' similar to Intel's offerings.
2. Intel Pentium IV’s RAMBUS architecture is based from yet earlier designs from SGI's RAMBUS architecture, yet it 'feels' like similar to AMD's offerings.
Both X86 vendors has assimilated key technologies that once powered the mighty performance machines of the early 1990s ('Cut & Paste ' engineering is X86’s best friend) …
It's just too bad that Motorola didn't "Athlon'ed" the 68K with post-RISC core (high performance RISC core with HW emulator/translator) and assimilated some early 90s high performance bus designs.
Can Amiga’s AAA architecture compete with technologies that were used to power the yesterday’s expensive RISC machines? (Remember Amiga Computing’s article on post-AAA Amiga machines i.e. pointed to RISC machine future?)
