Eyetech as the new MAI distributor.

[asian1]

Mai Logic Incorporated had  announced an agreement with Eyetech Group Ltd. to distribute the Teron CX and PX development systems in Europe, and to distribute production systems based on the Teron CX and PX designs to the Amiga market worldwide.

MAI's announcement

Eyetech Website

[redrumloa]

Nice press release! I wonder if any mainstream rags will pick it up...
 :-o

[Herewegoagain]

Nice...

The JSF is the US Department of Defense's focal point for defining affordable next generation strike aircraft weapon systems for the Navy, Air Force, Marines, and the US allies. The focus of the program is affordability- reducing the development cost, production cost, and cost of ownership of the JSF family of aircraft. The program is accomplishing this by facilitating the Services' development of fully validated, affordable operational requirements, and lowering risk by investing in and demonstrating key leveraging technologies and operational concepts.

Ok,  OT here, but WOW!   If it's good enough for JSF, then it's good enough for me!!!!!!!!!  (Read the other press release above the Eyetech one on the main MAI page)  I think MAI have just struck a MAJOR deal.
Read that part here.

[whabang]

Oohh! Amiga in the next generation air fighters??? :-?

 :-D  :-D  :-D

[redrumloa]

Oh yeah and I guess when the naysayers said "MAI is not a partner, Eyetech are only a custor", they were WRONG.

But then again this really isn't new information;-)

[Ivan]

That was one of the best news items i've seen in a long time. It dosen't say the A1 will be released any sooner or that OS4 just got finished today but it does show there is real cooperation out there and real investments by companies to bring new PPC boards to Amiga. Thumbs up.



>Oohh! Amiga in the next generation air fighters???

haha, i kinda like that idea


/* JSF Weapons System */

trace all
options results

parse arg target

if target='Al Queda' then launchmissile()


Ivan

[System]

Great news, and no, the naysayers weren't wrong.  We said it was an MAI board all along despite the denial from Alan.

But... now I'm confused.  If the AmigaOne is, in fact (which it is) an MAI board, which is being marketed to resellers at substantially less than $600 (which in fact it is), then

1) Why have we been waiting on Eyetech
2) What does Eyetech actually have to do with it?
3) Why are we paying a substantial price premium to Eyetech for the AmigaOne?

Sorry, I wish Alan all the best, and there's probably something I'm not aware of (please elaborate?), but for me this press release very distinctly leaves the taste of Eyetech as an unnecessary middle-man who is there simply to get his cut.

[redrumloa]

Sorry, I wish Alan all the best, and there's probably something I'm not aware of (please elaborate?), but for me this press release very distinctly leaves the taste of Eyetech as an unnecessary middle-man who is there simply to get his cut.

Mai and Eyetech seem to be actual partners here, not just a fancy useless press release. It may look like Eyetech is a middle-man, but without Eyetech IMO Mai wouldn't, or simply COULDN'T have enter this *OR* the LinuxPPC Market market.

[Elektro]

http://www.mai.com/products/teron%20cx.htm

Well this certainly looks like the AmigaONE.

[Kronos]

@Elektro
Suprised ?

@Red
MAI's main buisness is selling northbridges and the know-how to use them.
Their boards where just intendet to give potential customers a starting-
point for their own development (like bPlan for example)
Thats why ONE TeronCX costs ~$4000.

They never planned to sell them to end-users, but when Eyetech
addressed them about the A1, they took that opportunity.

Eyetech is the distributor for the boards, but not for the other MAI-product
(Articia??-chips).

[System]

When discussing Eyetech's neccessity in this matter, it is adviseable to look
at what Eyetech is providing:
First a conduit to the Amiga OS4 through Eyetech's partnership with
Amiga/Hyperion, second both retail and wholesale distribution channels
already in place, and third they will probably order 600-700 boards in this
first order, these things add up to a significant contribution to get the
ball rolling.

If Mai had to set all of this up and deal with orders of one to twenty
boards, the costs to us would be even higher. This way Mai has no risk and a
clear path to a market that COULD turn out to be lucrative. If they had to
bear the risk of this on their own it wouldn't happen PERIOD!

Once again, I want to thank Alan for his willingness to stick with us
through all of the hassles and bickering. We Amigans are blessed to have
people like this that are willing to risk a great deal in times like these
to help keep the dream alive. Eyetech is not doing this because they have
to; they are doing it because they want to. They have many oportunities to
go in other directiohns.

But then only TimeWillTell

[Argo]

Good, but a public announcement of what we already knew.

[redfox]

Good announcement.

@Wayne
I have been pondering the relationship between Amiga Inc., Eyetech, Hyperion and Mai Logic Incorporated for quite a while.  Thanks for being brave enough to ask these questions out loud.

Anyway, IMHO, redrumloa, Kronos, and TimeWillTell have provided some plausible answers to these questions.

Glad to see it's finally official that the AmigaOne is based on the Teron CX and Teron PX boards produced by Mai Logic Incorporated.

Another piece of the AmigaOne puzzle has fallen into place.

------------
redfox

[asian1]

Hi
Perhaps Alan Redhouse should clarify which version of Linux PowerPC is compatible with AmigaOne.
1. First information: TurboLinux
2. Second information: AmigaOne IS NOT MAI Teron CX evaluation board, therefore incompatible with Turbo Linux. The official distribution is SUSE Linux for PowerPC.

I had received information from SUSE German that SUSE PowerPC cann't run on Amiga One and only run on top of APPLE PowerMac / iMAC / iBook hardware.

I hope Eyetech will also promote AmigaOne as standalone motherboard for Linux PowerPC, not bundled with AmigaOS 4. Several people want to buy AmigaOne for running Linux and MacOS 9.
I guess they will wait for AmigaOS 4.2 with intergrated Amiga DE / Intent.

[yoodoo]

The developers with A1 boards have a number of different Linux distros working on the A1.  I can't think why Suse wouldn't work.