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And they failed for exactly the same reasons. PPC is dead. Dead dead dead. Dead dead dead dead DEAD. Deader than disco. Deader than bright green nylon shirts. Dead dead x100000 dead.

For PPC accelerators, nobody had the technical knowledge of Phase5, and their 603e/604e designs were already pushing the physical constraints of an accelerator board. Phase5 ran a business making accelerators for Macs. Nobody else did. When they went bankrupt, anyone who tried to follow them was doomed to fail. And even had they not, there's just so much you can cram onto an accelerator.

For full boards, it's because of lack of reliable support chipsets. Apple designed its own and didn't sell them on. It didn't help that Freescale went the SoC route. It helped even less when Apple decided to go x86. That should have been a final message that PPC was dead and it was time to move on. But no, Hyperion had to keep flogging a dead horse, and A-Eon got in on the action. "Hey, this board isn't supported well enough. Time to make a new one and support it even less!"

Now, Hyperion finally realised PPC is dead dead dead dead, so decided they want to muscle in on the recovering retro scene, hence this legal squabble. Whether they're hoping damages from Cloanto will pay their debts or whether they hope to make profits squeezing this market, or the good of everyone, they must fail. They'll destroy retro like they destroyed everything else they touched.