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Old 10-11-17, 02:56 AM   #1
BarracudaUAK
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Default New Amiga computer...

Decided to take a moment to do a search for the most recent Amiga that was produced...

To my surprise, I found a review dated for May of this year.


https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017...ga-meets-2017/


I read the review, specifications wise, it looks pretty good.

A few interesting variations vs a "PC"...

Of note is the fact that it has
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... a custom PowerPC motherboard, supporting a dual-core Freescale CPU at various clock speeds up to 2.5GHz.
...
AND


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... a very curious custom chip. The “Xena” is an XMOS 16-core programmable 32-bit 500 MHz coprocessor that can be configured by software to act as any type of custom chip imaginable. It is connected to a special “Xorro” slot that has the same physical connection as a PCIe x8 expansion card, but it is dedicated to adding more Xena chips as desired.
So it has a 32bit, 16 core, 500mhz co-processor that can be made to do "whatever"...
AND YOU CAN ADD MORE?

So does this mean I could have a dual-core CPU taking care of the OS, and multiple 16-core 'CPU's running the GAME???

I think I'm getting a bit giddy....


I might (read: most definitely will) check this out more closely over the next few days...

It's not cheap, but it's less expensive than when I priced a new AMD Threadripper from scratch...

Thoughts?

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