A-EON Technology CVBA and Varisys Ltd Announce Partnership

[Amiga_Nut]

Oooof bit warm in here *puts on flame proof jacket*

I personally don't see the issue with the CPU being dual core (or whatever) and OS4 not supporting multi-threading. This is normal, the CPU comes first, the OS makes the best of the features of the highest end hardware capable of running said OS. 64bit CPUs came before 64bit Windows (which was a disaster in the case of XP64 btw so they can hardly make a worse job of it)

So in essence we have a G5 PowerPC unit? I mean in terms of CPU power ghz per ghz. The reason Apple left PPC for Intel was simple, laptops. The G5 was never going to make it into the laptop market and Apple are not stupid, laptop sales in the middle of the last decade were on the up and up and a very desirable piece of tech....exactly the kind of thing Apple thrives on. There's nothing wrong with the G5 CPU for desktops. Also my only issue with x1000 is value for money, if it was 600 dollars and included a capable GPU then great I would have zero problems with it.

PS I'm not totally up on side lines or older PPC stuff, Cell is where it's at (and Xenon if IBM were clever enough not to be screwed by a Microsoft exclusivity contract of course) so that was a genuine question about the relative sophistication of the x1000 CPU mooted at in this thread.

[Amiga_Nut]

The only reason we are still on G4 PPC CPUs is down to the manufacturers/designers of Amiga hardware NOT a technical problem in finding new and better CPUs than G5 PPC. I have said it until I am blue in the face that any engineer with a half decent IQ would be building cheap motherboards based on the IBM Xenon 3.2Ghz CPU which is compatible with PowerPC. This CPU is 4+ years old now. They should have made the call to IBM a long time ago at Hyperion/Amiga Inc etc. Given some 50 million IBM Xenon CPUs have been fabricated they could probably sell them at LESS than 604e prices charged to Amiga companies.

Also when comparing 68060 to x86 remember Motorola was the first to make a clock doubled CPU for desktop computers. A 50mhz 060 runs internally at 100mhz. Intel did not do this until Centrino a decade later. It also explains the massive perceived increase in performance from 040 to 060 CPUs at similar speeds. 020 and 030 were not so great but it doesn't matter, Commodore had no idea where to go from 68040 and would have gone bankrupt anyway whatever PPC CPUs were available in 1994.