New Hyperion Entertainment Website http://a-eon.com/ - The Mystery Continues

[Karlos]

http://www.embeddedstar.com/weblog/2009/12/17/arm-digital-home/

released 17/12/2009

Weed

Erm, isn't that an ARM based processor? I think it has been established that the board is a PPC based one.

[Karlos]

Well, check back tomorrow and we'll talk about custom chips.

I'm at work tomorrow

[Karlos]

Well, seriously, most of it is already out there.
2x PCIe 16x (16 lanes connected, they'll scale down to 2x 8x if both are populated)
3x PCIe 1x (Xorro slot in line)
2x PCI legacy slots
4x SATA
8x USB
Onboard Audio
4x RAM socket

It can run 8 programs at 25% each, so that makes it how many cores?

Well, 2, would seem the obvious answer to that, assuming by run you mean actually executing instructions and not waiting for IO etc.

As far as I can see, the only unknown factors not yet guessed are the CPU itself, Xena and Xorro...

For that... well... see you tomorrow

That's cruel, man :lol:

[Karlos]

So, a dual core, reasonably available (probably excludes my earlier guess at PWRficient) PPC-based CPU probably supporting an address space larger than 4GB and recent enough to have the requisite support (possibly on chip) for PCI express.

Surely that narrows it down a bit?

[Karlos]

It looks like a hard day's speculation has left us all a bit cream crackered

[Karlos]

Ello Ello Ello!!
 
What do we have here then?
 
New Amiga Hardware?? :eek:
 
Why wasn't I told... :furious:

What, don't you check your SMS messages? :p

[Karlos]

If they have sometime to announce why not announce it instead of all this silliness.

This whole thing seems childish and annoying. Surely we have had enough of vapourware by now. I for one have lost a great deal of respect for Hyperion over their lack of forthrightness with the Amiga community.

Commodore were (rightly) lambasted for failing to market the Amiga or generate any real interest in it. At least this has generated some interest and without the usual flame wars. Although, I expect that'll start in earnest as soon as the actual specs are released

[Karlos]

@Karlos,

Sounds like <1Ghz clock speed. Thanks for the heads up.

Chris

LOL, I was thinking it was more likely to be 1GHz or more. For example, if it were using PWRficient, it could even be 2GHz. PWRficient would seem to tick all the boxes given what has been hinted so far, but availability of the processor would seem to preclude it.

[Karlos]

I would change this statement to:

Although, I expect that'll start in earnest as soon as the actual prices are released

:laughing:

That too

[Karlos]

"Only Amiga Makes It Possible - motorollin feat. Doomy

You did what to Doomy now?

[Karlos]

That's because it isn't the main CPU.  It's part of Xena/Xorro.  The main cpu is a PA Semi cpu

That was my guess too (pwrficient), based on 5 mins googling and a quick appraisal of the apparently supported features. However, since apple now own it, how are they supposed to acquire them?

[Karlos]

no

And the first nomination for the "Piru award for concise terseness" goes to koaftder...

Seriously though, no. Consider that not even Wine on my current PC (which was built to play games when not running linux) can properly do that, despite having nVidia's own OpenGL3 capable drivers installed.

[Karlos]

Man, I can´t wait to see...

Yeah, kudos to hyperion. My amiga.org activity rating was flagging badly at about 20% 3 days ago :lol:

[Karlos]

All this "xena" custom chip speculation gave me pause for a moment earler. Anybody remember Phase5's A\Box plans and their propsed Caipirinha custom chip? I so wanted that machine

For anybody totally in the dark about that, see here

[Karlos]

The slots are in the normal position (compare length vs. offset from edge), it just looks a bit odd because the area behind the slots is so empty.

The board's standard ATX, would be silly to not use a common form factor.

He's right. My PC motherboard's PCIe slots are equally far in from the edge.

[Karlos]

Well, the next piece of the puzzle should soon be revealed