What are the chances that these chips will make it into consumer products that are mass produced? If they do get utilized in a mass produced consumer product, what are your estimates on how long it would take for companies to design and produce such products so they could be available in major electronics retail stores, 6 months, 12 months, or 18 months from 2nd Qtr 2012? (your best guesses of course)

Since computers for public consumption are no longer using this architecture (except for embedded market products and tiny niche markets), is there any chance that new (probably embedded) products might be produced that can be converted for use as a general purpose computer by people wanting to run MorphOS on such hardware?

If the price is low, perhaps the Chinese will choose to create something that is not tied to x86 & Windows and see the benefits of having a scalable architecture like this one, that can perhaps be used for low power/low cost user systems, yet scale up to workstation, or even super computer power.

How else can MorphOS users and developers obtain any new hardware with modern components which has been manufactured in mass quantities, if these new chips are not used in some product that could also be used as a MorphOS computer, unless we want to follow the path of A-Eon, and incur high design and manufacturing costs at low volumes. If these CPU's can be bought at less than $200, or better, less than $100, then perhaps a custom motherboard could be created using these new SOC's and a complete MorphOS computer system might be sold at a reasonable price.

Still I think the idea of creating new hardware for MorphOS is full of risk and possibility to increase it's cost above what would be a desirable maximum. We have already seen how difficult it is to have new custom hardware created, and that it can easily take much more time than first estimated.

I am not against the idea of new custom hardware, but only if it can be created at reasonable cost and with performance that is equal to, or surpasses the performance of the used G4 & G5 hardware that we already have available to us for porting to.

I would much rather see new hardware that is more power efficient using these new SOC's, than the power hungry G5 computers, but not at a cost of several times the cost to purchase said G5 systems, or if the performance would be similar to the current SAM boards.

We need performance equal to, or better than a 2.5GHz, or 2.7GHz G5, so we may play HD streaming video sources, or we need better drivers and/or codecs, which would allow HD playback using low power CPU's, like the Raspberry Pi accomplishes.