AmigaOne clones?

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Regarding the Eyetech aspect, I seem to remember reading somewhere that at the first attempt at making the A1 was a total disaster for them, the H/W design wasn`t very good they had trouble with northbridges or southbridges or london bridges can`t really remember. Anyway they also had HUGE probs with the firmware which never ran at all, and in the end Eyetech lost a bundle on it.

Then they saw the teron which was all in a far better board and they could get it at a reasonable price, so they went for that instead.

They could have just let it all end and pull out of the market altogether, but they stuck at it. I don`t know what deals A.inc/hyperion/Eyetech did, but I do know this....if I owned a Co. I would be trying to get the best deal possible for my money spent investing in the market. If I can get all sales of the OS tied to MY h/w I`m gonna be pretty happy.

I think that maybe A.inc had to let Eyetech have sole h/w rights for a short period, at least 1 yr or so so that they get the chance to recoup some cash.
I also don`t think that there will be many "clones" if any at all, for the simple reason there isn`t enough users to support them.

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Had a dig around and this is what is said on the Eyetech site......

Is the AmigaOneG3-SE the same as the MAI Teron Cx? No. During the period leading up to the OS4 development agreement being signed we evaluated the Articia S northbridge chip for possible use in a redesigned AmigaOne. We concluded that it was the most cost-effective chip for the design and proceeded to draw up some new specifications for an uprated, more cost-effectively engineered AmigaOne, the AmigaOneG3-SE. Clearly using the Articia S instead of Escena's custom northbridge design meant that both the schematic design and the PCB layout would be entirely new. MAI logic are a chipset manufacturer, not a PPC motherboard manufacturer, but they had commissioned a low volume, high cost evaluation board, the Teron Cx, to help sell their chipsets. The Teron Cx was never designed to, or intended to, go into volume production. We therefore asked them if they could recommend a design company who was familiar with using the Articia S in PPC motherboard design. They recommended the same (Far Eastern) company that designed their Teron Cx evaluation board.

The new Eyetech AmigaOne design obviously shares a lot of commonality with the Teron Cx board, but more than a cursory glance at the specifications (ATA speed, integrated ethernet, custom firmware, number of active PCI/AGP slots etc) - and the price - of both boards should be enough to convince most people that they really are different designs.

However if you remain unconvinced you are of course perfectly welcome to purchase the Teron Cx evaluation board. It costs $3900, misses many features of the AmigaOneG3-SE, and won't run OS4.

@Fats

My explanation wasn`t explained very well!  :-)

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As a sidenote, I would have loved to have seen the A1200 pci bridgeboard, (access to all my lovely demos) but sadly it was not to be. :-(

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@Rogue

Oh well, I understand your reasons,  yet another victory for the fud spreaders then :-(

Eyetech will have to wait till OS4 is released then before they get my money. :cry: