The following news tidbits are coming straight from the mouth of Bill McEwen, courtesy of UGN's live audio feed from the show:

The AmigaOne is currently targeted at a December (this year, I should add) release. It's based on Amiga's own customized motherboard design, using off-the-shelf parts. Amiga are putting up a hardware division, lead by Dean Brown, to create custom hardware designs for various devices that will be then offered to 3rd parties to manufacture.

The SDK is selling better than forecasted. Amiga have been in contact with numerous major consumer electronics and software companies, including (straight quote) "every major gaming company out there". Many of these already possess the SDK. Interest from major companies particularly picked up after Bill's two recent TV appearances.

A version of the SDK for Windows will be made available next month.

Red Hat will start selling the SDK next week. Also Sun have started using Amiga software to demo Java stuff.

There are going to be public beta releases of the OE prior to release.

There is going to be an Amiga IPO.

Paul Nolan is now doing contract work for Amiga.

More on the license issues: No software developers will be forced to pay royalties. Voluntarily, they can sign up for a certification program, which will give their products an official Amiga "badge" and the chance to have their product marketed by Amiga themselves. This will cost them $1.50 per sold item.

Amiga will start offering low-cost promotional merchandise to user groups.

At the show, Amiga were showing off an ARM-based touchscreen unit, running the new OE. The design is by none other than Mick Tinker, and it's not being sold commercially yet.

Backwards compatibility to the Classic Amiga from the new OE will be dealt with by something that "is not an emulator".