So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?

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Not interested in yet another thread of "PPC is dead" gibbering. We've all been there enough times.

What I am wondering about is.. what is the absolute earliest talk and from who, about amiga going powerPC ?

In other words.. where did it start?

It was a decision made by Amiga.

Amiga goes Power PC (TM)

During his key note address held in Los Angeles at the Video Toaster Expo, Petro Tyschtschenko, CEO and President of Amiga Technologies officially announced the Power PC to be the processor used in the future generation of Amiga computers.

The first POWER AMIGA will be available 1st quarter 1997 and will feature the Power PC 604 RISC CPU. Further models will be available later in the entry-level, as well as in the mid-range.
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The development of the native RISC AmigaOS will be made internally at Amiga Technologies.
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More good news for all Amiga users: The Power PC technology will not only be available for new Power Amigas. Thanks to a close co-operation between Amiga Technologies and Phase V, a German turbo board manufacturer, a full range of Power PC boards will also be available for the A1200, A3000 and A4000 series.
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First Power PC boards for current Amigas will be available before end of 1996.
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That was it.