From Bill and Rachael today:

"Hi Jim, please forgive me for not getting back to you. I guess it was the shock of Freescale actually having absolutely no interest. In fact, they are trying to switch all customers left in PowerPC to ARM. We could license the IP and make our own chip, but we do not have enough money for that. :) FOr the moment, the project has died again. Sorry to share the bad news. Best regards, Raquel and Bill"

So, Aeon's next product (after the X5000) is simply unacceptable.
And Bill appears to have been actively discouraged from pursuing a PPC based board.

Since MorphOS' next move is to X64, and we are not moving to ARM, I guess this may be the close of our relationship with Mr. Buck.

To bad, Bill was always supportive.

So, thank you Mr. Buck for a further consideration.

On to X64...