I guess this is old news, but it was new to me:
Announcement by bbrv about efika2
You will note we are in the process of preparation...
http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/projects.php
The "EFIKA2" has been our way of describing what is next for at least the last three to four years. The first EFIKA came to market with the 5200 and was launched at FTF 2005.
http://www.genesi-usa.com/press/2005/6/24/
At the Forum, Genesi also introduced the EFIKA 5K2, a MPC5200 Performance Evaluation Board. Genesi will now work with graphics card manufacturers to optimize the board through the use of the onboard PCI support in order to transition to a smaller two chip board solution targeted at mobile and embedded applications.
The first "EFIKA2" was the next version which featured the 5200B, an updated version of the 5200. These boards first shipped in November 2006 and continue to be sold today.
In the meanwhile, the next "EFIKA2" was planned around the 5121e/5123, but after a significant amount of development we have abandoned this effort. The chip went through too many revisions and we wasted significant time and money supporting THTF/LimePC and Cherrypal without compensation or reward. Our conclusion: 1) the 5121e/5123 is not well-suited for consumer products that require a desktop environment, and 2) the 5121e/5123 was designed as an embedded processor and will find success in the industrial and automotive segments. Nevertheless, we did our best to support Freescale and have maintained this effort until very recently:
http://en.opensuse.org/MPC5121eADS
All that to say, the next "EFIKA2" will truly be something new, so please stay tuned...
So there will be no Efika2 which is PPC, it´ll be ARM. It also seems that Genesi is abandoning the PPC platform, but maybe I´m reading too much into this
Now, with the (seemingly) close ties between Genesi and MorphOS team, will the CPU choice spill over to them?
