> each (if SMP enabled) would outperform the X5000

...with applications that can take advantage of more than 2 threads. And even then the T1042 would outperform the P5020 in the X5000/20, but not the P5040 in the X5000/40.

> The second spec is unlike any existing boards I know of.

There is the T2080QDS board but I haven't been able to find out its form factor.

> Both of these ideas offer significant advantages over the products we
> are likely to see from A-eon for the next several years.

You're ruling out that A-Eon will commission development of a T1-based or T2-based board after Tabor?