Technical Samantha report from Electronica 2006

[Schoenfeld]

Michael Boehmer from E3B and Jens Schoenfeld from individual Computers have attended Electronica 2006 in Munich, Germany, and they took a closer look at Samantha.

Read the complete report with lots of pictures in the international section of a1k.org: Samantha Report

[Homer]

An interesting report from a couple of guys that know what they are talking about ! I will keep my eye on this one !!

[Dr_Righteous]

Shall we just go ahead and nickname the Sam440EPx as the AmigaTwo? I'm psyched about the possibilities of the unused FPGA space... Especially the idea of programing it for use as a Super Buster. Nothing says Amiga like adding a Zorro II/III bus!

Pop in our favorite mutant floppy controller, and we'd be at home on this puppy!

[dammy]

Question is of course, can it be licensed.  That will require a company which gross sales of atleast 500,000 @ annual sales.  I don't know if even Genesi would qualify.  

Dammy

[Agafaster]

well I'll save for one if the price is reasonable* !


*I'm not going to suggest this should sell for typical PC motherboard prices. that would be silly.

[Agafaster]

actually having read the review properly, the EPx would really rip in a DVD/DVB box, or in kiosks and the like:
it has an IDE (I presume!) chain,
and a TV/DVB decoder and MPEG codec on a PCI board would be ideal - the board is small enough to fit inside a modestly proportioned set-top case, and bundling with IrDA (and/or bluetooth on a USB port) and a remote keypad/pointer controller this would rock!
but thats just my take - they need to get a prod version out first, then get them to sell!
if it runs Linux in a non-hampered way (cf: Linux on A1 with its ArticiaS chipset problems!) it will be a start, and could easily make the half-million dollar turnover (it was turnover and not profit as one of A.inc's criteria, I'm fairly sure on that point).
-edit- Dammy, just read your post properly, Gross sales isnt profit, apologies! however, Gross sales isnt turnover either! ;-)

[TheMagicM]

and I almost half expected a review along the lines of "well, its square".. "green".. "has cylindrical things soldered to it".. etc.. LOL.

It'll be interesting to see what becomes of this board and what OS will run on it.