So what Processors did commodore consider for the next gen Amiga?

[WolfToTheMoon]

There was talk of HP's PA-RISC for the Hombre architecture(gaming console and a PCI gfx card).

Acutiator architecture, which was designed by Dave Haynie as a base for a new high-end Amiga, was designed as a cost effective 040 board, but was adoptable to future RISC processors(not named as to which would have been chosen).

[WolfToTheMoon]

Commodore before going bankrupt was looking at Hewlett Packard´s PA-RISC processor to continue its hardware development on the Amiga. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-RISC)

PPC was a new processor that was promising a lot and was thought as the new godsent by techies at that time. Commodore eyes werent there though.

Only partially correct. PA-RISC was destined to power the CD32 successor and a PCI gfx card. There was no talk of a PA-RISC based Amiga desktop architecture.
Acutiator was designed as a 68040 board but easily configurable to a new RISC CPU. This was to be the next high-end Amiga after 4000. So, after 68K came... 68K :lol:

[WolfToTheMoon]

Where is Hazydave when you need him

It's a while back, but the HP PA-RISC 150 was definitely mentioned in the same sentence as the Amiga in 1994... Amiga Format had an interview with engineer Chris Ludwig, who confirmed as much...

Read that interview and then read Haynie's comment on it... From what I gather, PA-RISC was destined for the gaming console and a PCI card. Desktop CPU architecture was still not decided upon.

[WolfToTheMoon]

so was the PA RISC any good? and I take it 150 was the mhz? sounds like it would have been really expensive!

what speeds were the first apple PPC machines that emulated the 68k range, anybody remember?

Apple went PPC with Power Macintosh 6100(60 MHz 601), 7100(66 MHz 601) and 8100(80 MHz 601). They were out during 1994.