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Originally Posted by Mathesar
What will the microcontroller do? The cortex M7 core in these things is many times more powerful than a MC68060 or a Vampire.
It feels a bit "wrong" to have a support controller that is more powerful than the computer it is supporting.
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Well, what it *could* do is maybe a different topic, but looking at the Warp accelerator, I think the ARM chip is used for stuff like mp3 decoding (16-bit audio codec) and maybe a bit surprisingly.. RTG.. (Full HD, 32 bit "Chrome Art accelerator for 2d graphics)) that apparently uses P96.
It also has a built in jpeg decoder which I'm sure could be utilized.
And there's also a pretty powerful FPU on that thing which could probably be used for something..
But... if we ignore all other stuff it can do and only focus on the RTG part where you can have a $7 chip on the motherboard that can give you Full HD RTG.
Third party graphics card are almost as old as the Amiga itself. So not blasphemy in the same way as it if the 480MHz CPU would be used to run software in the way Blizzard PPC ran stuff alongside the 68k cpu...