Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12245 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> Curious.
Why? 2 new systems plus 1 new XCore card amounts to 3 new products. So I'd say that this year's statement is very much coherent with last year's statement.
> Trevor mentioned months ago that he and Paul Gentle's firm were working
> on at least a couple projects.
True, and 3 is a couple, isn't it?
> Considering that Paul mentioned an interest in Qorlq processor to me about
> two years ago, and considering the remarkable developments within those
> product lines, one can only wonder what those fellows are up to.
...and not to forget considering this:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7001&start=745
I can imagine that Varisys base the Nemo successor(s) on their VM400 product, which would mean that the 2 new A-Eon systems could be a cheaper lower end system with P3041 chip running at, say, 1.2 GHz, and a more expensive higher end system with P5020 chip at 2.2 GHz, all using the same basic board design thanks to the pin compatibility of the chips. And if they want to avoid the awkward situation where the lower end board has a higher core count than the higher end board, they can very well use the pin-compatible 4-core P5040 chip running at up to 2.4 GHz instead of the P5020.