Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12277 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
Addendum:
>> 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.
> A slide from
Trevor's AmiWest 2012 presentation (
direct link,
Youtube) reads like this:
> "
Future PowerPC Possibilities
> [...]
> - e500mc : 32-bit, quad-core - Mid-level machine
> - e5500 : 64-bit, dual-core - Power machine"
>
> This goes very much in line with my speculations above. A quad-e500mc chip
> (running at 1.5 GHz, which Trevor mentions in his talk) would mean either the P3041
> or the P4040 (P2041 wouldn't be pin-compatible) [...]
Apparently, the P3041 is more likely than the P4040 to be able to share a motherboard design with the P50xx:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=37074&forum=14#693507