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Nice news, great future for Cyrus aka X2000

a) As with Nemo, the Cyrus Plus motherboard has been custom designed to run  the latest version of AmigaOS 4 and will support multiple PowerPC Linux  distri- butions. The board is pin compatible with several 64-bit  Freescale QorIQCPUs including the P3 P3041, an e500mc quad-core CPU  running up to 1.5 Ghz and the P5 series P5020, an e5500 dual-core  running up to 2.0 Ghz. The P5040 quad-core CPU which operates up to 2.4  Ghz should also be compatible.

DOES THIS MEAN I CAN BUY CYRUS PLUS AND UPGRADE CPU LATER TO PPC64 x4 cores?

b) Who gives money to who  A-EON funds Varisys or Varisys to AEON?
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Quote from: EDanaII;750679
@ yssing

It's a bad thing for some because the price to performance ratio sux for these machines. I am making an assumption here, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if these new boards were at least as expensive as the X1000 boards.

In order for the Amiga market to really benefit, we need machine in the ~300 USD range. That's including OS. My humble opinion, of course.

That is SAM 440 board.

It looks monsterous expensive, but please point me out to any other dual core PPC board anywhere in the world?

It can only be compared to its relatives, other OS4 systems, and I find X1000 good performance/ratio + expandability and features when compared to SAM 460 system.

X2000 would cost about the same (could be less expensive because CPU is, but I believe AEON wants a bit more profit margin since low volumes production is expensive) and better models will surely be more expensive then X1000 currently is.
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it's not 25%... its more like 500% compared to modern midclass x86.
Also, there is no SIMD so it would be even slower in compared to AVX optimized x86 CPUs that have up-to 256-bit wide vector units.
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You forgot to say which are produced in volumes of 100 000 models.  

But please point out any dual core PPC consumer board currently on sale to individuals and not military or sever type. That is the "same class"
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