| [News] Amigaone has the Mentor ARC ARTICIA S chipset: is it a TERON CX board ? | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 27-Feb-2002 15:17 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 76 comments
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If you look at the pitures of the AmigaOne you can see the brand/model of the NorthBridge.
Here is a link that give you more information about it.
I like particularly this article that says Pentium 3, Pentium 4 performance at half the price.
The Amigaone look to be exactely a Teron CX.
Lets just hope that YOU guys order enough AmigaOne to get lower and lower prices.
I guess Bplan used the Articia S to build the Pegasos.
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| Posted by Adam Kowalczyk on 27-Feb-2002 15:14 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (Anonymous):
The similarities are uncanny. Even the silk screen on the board is the same. Why would the same design be build in two locations when at this stage of the game open PPC boards are non-existant? I do not question that ESCENA designed and built a PCI interface for an A1200. MAI surely would have no interest or experience in doing this. I'm not sure why this is even needed any more. This new AmigaOne will mean people can "retire" their old hardware on to another generation of Amiga hobbyists. I know it's going to be hard to not have the urge to plug something into your A4000 and A1200 because that's the way it's been for the last 10 years. Maybe an organization needs to be started, like "Amiga Expansion Addicts Anonymous". It could be run by the same group of people who just recently retired their VIC-20's.
There is no shame in the AmigaOne not being a design out of Eyetech. Eyetech is still going to be responsible for the integration and reselling of the machine which is someting I'm sure MAI doesn't do. MAI makes a chipset and they had to make a PPC board to sell their chipsets. When other companies see that their good at making chipsets and can use them in a reference design, you might see others making boards. The MAI boards are the solution to a problem that literally fell from the sky. I doubt they even knew that a market for their boards existed for Amiga users waiting patiently for new hardware. It's a fact of life. It's called outsourcing. Even Apple has some if not all of their boards made by Flextronics. I cannot recall which cell phone maker handed over the manufacturing responsibility to Flextronics as well. It's the way of the world and it's a good thing as it allows the company's to concentrate on their core strengths.
Do you think Apple executives care where the new iMac is made or who makes it? Flextronics makes that as well. The only thing about it that's Apple is it's design. It's kind of like a Volkswagen in North America. The only thing German about Jetta's and Beetles is the design as they come out of factories in Mexico and other parts of South America. Do you think Microsoft makes the Xbox? I believe the Xbox is built by Flextronics in Hungary.
I apologize for the rant, but I just cannot understand why who made the board or where the board was made is such a big issue. Frankly, I'm happy it's not DCE as the many examples of failed CSPPC's makes many question their quality. I cannot emphasize enough how good of a business decision it is to take advantage of something that exists and works! Don't reinvent the wheel, when someone already designed it and can sell you them in the quantities you want. Yes, you lose some control, but offload a good portion of responsibility.
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