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

[Karlos]

Well, whatever But I doubt they spent that much money only to bury an architecture they have made a big effort to "switch from" (thus representing no threat to their existing PPC products) and since PA Semi weren't responsible for fabrication anyway, there's no reason to assume the product is dead. However, it may well be beyond the reach of anybody outside apple.

[PanterHZ]

Well, here is a picture of the motherboard: http://www.a-eon.com/4.html

I will leave it up to you others with better knowledge than me to figure things out, but it seems to me that X = PCI Express.

One good thing is that they seem to have left out all legacy ports and have 8 USB ports instead. I do also wonder about what the card-slot in the corner is for, but maybe the basic system settings and files will be stored on a flash card or something?

[Argo]

X can mean multiple. 2 X 2 =4

Hey, it's all I've got.

[Karlos]

Ok, speculating in a different direction, the area for the CPU seems to have the standard mountings for some fairly heavy duty cooling, which a high-efficiency CPU probably wouldn't need anyway. So maybe we are barking up the wrong tree all together...

There are four memory slots. A machine with only a 32-bit address space probably doesn't need that many. A machine with a wider address space (either 64-bit or using some sort of physical address extensions) might do. What sort of PPC processors match that description?

[Tumbleweed]

x=xScale?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvell_Technology_Group

Weed

[Boudicca]

Ok, speculating in a different direction, the area for the CPU seems to have the standard mountings for some fairly heavy duty cooling, which a high-efficiency CPU probably wouldn't need anyway. So maybe we are barking up the wrong tree all together...

Your slow i said that 30 posts back look like 775 mounts.....big cooler basically

[Boudicca]

CPU ?

Xenon !

[Karlos]

Your slow i said that 30 posts back look like 775 mounts.....big cooler basically

Sure but it isn't likely to be a socket 775, now is it? After all, other than intel, who uses them?

[Argo]

Custom Chips! Hmmmm?

[Boudicca]

Sure but it isn't likely to be a socket 775, now is it? After all, other than intel, who uses them?

775 mounting allows using 775 fans which are so plentiful....its worth the effort

[Golem!dk]

There are four memory slots. A machine with only a 32-bit address space probably doesn't need that many. A machine with a wider address space (either 64-bit or using some sort of physical address extensions) might do. What sort of PPC processors match that description?

QorIQ gives you 36 bits.

[motorollin]

I do also wonder about what the card-slot in the corner is for, but maybe the basic system settings and files will be stored on a flash card or something?

Kickstart

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moto

[Tumbleweed]

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

released 17/12/2009

Weed

[Karlos]

Kickstart

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moto

I don't see why they wouldn't just load kickstart from disk like all existing OS4.x systems. Assuming the board is a re-branded PPC developer system I'd guess it was some bit of standard hardware in the reference. Of course, I could be completely wrong.

[motorollin]

I don't see why they wouldn't just load kickstart from disk like all existing OS4.x systems.

Nah, stick it on a chip for old times' sake

[Tron2k2]

http://a-eon.com/3.html

The animation in this page could be an anagram for Amiga One, maybe they're making or having made a 'legit' as in actually working Amiga One.  Don't get defensive, current A1 owners, we all know Articia had problems.. :-/

What if 'X' means they're going X86?!  I'm not in love with X86 but maybe they just wanted hardware they could actually get without breaking  the bank in development costs.  Hardware that works, is expandable and can be argued to have a future as well as a choice of real, production-ready chip vendors.  Just sayin'..

I'm very happy to be wrong here, if it's a new and hot PPC board that can at least outperform a Mac MDD-FW800 than I'm in :-)