> They (devs) have been talking so much about multicore that it would be weird.

Yes, that's why Dickinson's statement has been puzzling me so much.

> Apparently they are trying to do some interesting tricks there.
> Another question is whether they can get it working and hence
> this statement (as I see it) "first X1K will not support multi core".

I take it you refer to the OS level here, right? The reason I find Dickinson's statement odd is that it seems to refer to the hardware level, not to the OS level. If A-Eon really have fully functional dual-core PA6T chips (which I believe to be the case) then there shouldn't be any "tricks" needed to get both cores working properly on a hardware level.

> when I said "does it matter" I was thinking A-eon can't win this game anyway.

First, we should define what this "game" is about at all and what "winning" should mean in this context ;-) I'd say that if A-Eon manage to release even a single batch of X1000 machines to real end-users (as opposed to beta testers) then this could be called a "win" for them to some degree.