> what's the Xcore board for? An Acube add on?

There's a short note about that there:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=35667&forum=16&start=400#685542

According to this, there should be more info on the XCore board in that video (which I haven't watched yet):

http://blip.tv/bios/hazelwood-on-xena-and-xorro-6432644 (direct link)

According to a note from Lyle Hazelwood during Trevor's AmiWest 2012 presentation (direct link, Youtube), the XCore board has been specifically designed for the X1000's Xorro slot and thus won't work in anything else.

>> 3 is a couple, isn't it?

> Actually, what Trev said was at least a couple.

Even just 2 would be "at least a couple" to my understanding. So 3 is even 50% more than the minimum required to comply with that statement :-)

> Apparently they may have been exploring more then the three they settled on.

I'd be surprised if it's really more than the XCore board and the two new systems. That's not to mean that Varisys couldn't handle more, but rather that A-Eon can't pay for development of more at a time.

> I [...] can't think of any other company designing PPC boards with a better
> record of bringing announced projects to market.

There are dozens of companies designing PPC boards out there but I've yet to conduct a survey examining the announcement-release ratio of those companies to come to any such conclusion like you have ;-)


Edit: Added link to the AmiWest video.

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 20.11.2012 - 23:26 ]