OpenPower... slightly too late IMHO...

[pandy71]

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pr...ease/41684.wss

IBM will open PowerPC architecture in similar way as in ARM case... IMHO this is to late but perhaps i'm wrong.

[prowler]

It remains to be seen whether this will have any implications for nextgen Amiga development, though...

[fitzsteve]

Could this lead to Emulating PPC so we can run OS4.x on X86 PC's?

[pandy71]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

Could this lead to Emulating PPC so we can run OS4.x on X86 PC's?

nope - PowerPC is emulated from some time

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4963

This (OpnePC) is more like ARM which is now everywhere - from small uC (replacing 8 bit) to large SoC's etc.

Originally Posted by prowler

It remains to be seen whether this will have any implications for nextgen Amiga development, though...

Not sure - for sure Power PC seem to be not apropriate to fit in decently cheap FPGA - and seem that only FPGA are Amiga chance - building cutom ASIC means at least 200 - 500 thousands chips - not sure that nowadays Amiga can be atractive to such group of customers (i mean even 20$ SoC with ARM can be more advanced).