> established contacts with company reps, obtained price quotess,
> did at least some preliminary design work.
> Andreas is more familiar with this than I am. I spent time on inquiries
> with I BM and Freescale and went so far as to start the design of an
> MPC8640 based system

I don't quite understand. What is it that you think I'm more familiar with than you?

> I can see two possible sources for the processor (Freescale and Applied Micro)

I'd add LSI to that:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7001&forum=3&post_id=77307#77307

> Acube have pursued other markets than just the MorphOS
> market when developing new hardware.

I'd even go as far as saying that the MorphOS market has never been in ACube's mind ;-)