> There's a recent statement by Trevor Dickinson which seems to indicate that
> the AmigaOne X1000 will initially use PA6T CPUs with only one functional
> core (and with the second one broken and thus cheaper to source?):
>
> "the intention is for multi processor support to be added although the first
> AmigaOne X1000 will not support this."
> http://www.commodorefree.com/magazine/vol4/issue43.html#ARTICLE3

While that one by Trevor Dickinson is still an unsolved mystery, I came across another puzzling statement, this time by journalist impersonator Jeremy Reimer:

"The X1000 motherboard has a dual-core PowerPC family CPU (it is actually closer to IBM's POWER line than the PowerPC), PCI Express slots, and a new custom chip called the XMOS that is like a programmable vector processor."
http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=3628

What could the part in brackets mean technically, considering that IBM POWER is actually an implementation of 64-bit PowerPC ISA?

(Commenting on nonsense like "custom chip" and "vector processor" isn't even worth the hassle I think.)