@hazydave

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When you're buying an "Amiga" with the performance of a $300 PC, you're paying a premium anyway. This kind of stuff seems pretty shortsighted

I think that the word overpaying shall describe it a bit more better ;)

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@hazydave

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I mean, yeah, what do these QorIQ chips cost? I don't know. But just single channel 10GbE cards for PCI cost $700+. I mean, it's good for the AEON people that they have a place to go of some kind, but this might even make the price go up.

Looking up the 4080 on Freescale's site, they cost ~$500 in quantities of 100 for the 8 core 1.5GHz version. So while each core might not be much better than an Atom, for 8 of them, with support for 8 1G ethernet, it's not bad. Not fantastic, but getting there.

Of course there's not much point until SMP is in place in AmigaOS. Perhaps that is the main reason why they went with PA6T over QorIQ - if the per core performance beats the QorIQ alternatives that are in similar price range, then it might be a sensible tradeoff for now.

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@hazydave

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And no vector math unit

I understand that Freescale will be adding Altivec to QorIQ in the next few years. Not that this negates the fact PPC is expensive.