So what is XMOS good for?

[Vulture]

What's all this negativity about? Puzzles me....
How come people know the price already before it's announced? How come people already know the board will be underpowered? How come people already know the XMOS chip is useless? I mean, all these could indeed be true, but - well - they also could be false assumptions. So, back to my original point, why all this negativity? *scratches head*

[Vulture]

Isn't the XMOS chip this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCore

according to wikipedia?

It seems pretty powerfull, at least on paper.
I, for one, would be happy if it could emulate classic miggy and keep this load (or a big part of it anyway) away from the CPU. I've no idea if it'd be possible, but that would be a useful utilization.

Also, afaik, PPC chips are still developed and manufactured under the PowerISA specs which is updated fairly regulary. Price-wise, well, I don't expect it to be cheap, but the 2000$ mark seems too high. Of course I can see the train of logic leading to that figure, but I think it's gonna be much cheaper than that. We'll see....