Schon oft wurden sie angekündigt, scheiterten jedoch meist an Unstimmigkeiten zwischen Amiga Inc. und Drittanbietern von Hard- und Software. Nun soll es mal wieder so weit sein: Neue Amiga wurden von Amiga Inc. und ACK Software Controls angekündigt. Dabei soll es sich um 2 Modelle handeln – ein Einsteigermodell für 489,– und ein Profigerät für 1498,– US-Dollar. Bilder der Geräte liegen noch nicht vor, jedoch die technischenn Details:
Details zum Einsteiger-Model:
- Flex-ATX form factor motherboard based on the Freescale MPC8349E SoC. (400MHz to 667MHz depending on requirements and price target)
- 1 (one) DDR2 DIMM slot expandable to 1GB using unregistered DIMMs.
- 1 (one) 66MHz PCI slot for use with readily available graphics cards.
- 2 (two) 33MHz PCI slots for additional expansion.
- 2 (two) 10/100/1Gb Ethernet Ports.
- 4 (four) Hi Speed USB ports.
- 2 (two) serial ports.
- 4 (four) SATA ports provided by a Silicon Image Sil3114 controller.
- Onboard sound provided by a C-Media CMI8738.
- Socketed EEPROM for U-Boot firmware.
- Atmel ATC2408A serial EEPROM (1 kb of non-volatile storage)
- Dallas DS1339 RTC with battery holder.
- Standard ATX power supply connector.
Details zur Profiversion:
- Based on the P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M dual core 64 bit CPUs clocked at 2GHz.
- RoHS compliant ATX form factor.
- Four (4) DDR2 DIMM slots.
- One (1) PCI Express x16 slot for high performance graphics cards.
- One (1) PCI Express x2 slot for high performance I/O cards.
- One (1) PCI Express x1 slot for standard I/O cards.
- One (1) PCI 32 bit slot for legacy cards.
- Six (6) USB 2.0 ports.
- Two (2) Gb Ethernet ports.
- Two (2) UART ports for serial connectivity and debug.
- One 8Mb Flash EEPROM containing U-Boot firmware.
- Four (4) SATA II ports based on the Silicon Image SiI3132 (x2).