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These guys are working with an Amiga vendor who has done a series of designs around the Applied Micro PowerPC 440 series SoCs (systems-on-a-chip). The block di
by hapless 9y ago
These guys are working with an Amiga vendor who has done a series of designs around the Applied Micro PowerPC 440 series SoCs (systems-on-a-chip). The block diagram clearly indicates an SoC. (IBM POWER, the fast PPC chips, are not SoCs!)
I infer that this is another PPC 440 design. Those chips top out at 1.2 GHz with just a couple cores, and they are a legacy product as far as Applied Micro is concerned -- AM is now focused on their ARM products.
At best, this project is a very pokey laptop from a near-dead Amiga OEM. At worst, it's a scam.
- mcbridematt 9y agoI suspect it is a NXP/Freescale T-series, 2x64-bit DDR4 and PCIe3.0 lanes lines up with the T4240. https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/applications-processors/qoriq-platforms/t-series/qoriq-t4240-t4160-t4080-multicore-communications-processors:T4240 https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors... These are popular CPU's in the networking world, but Freescale halted further PowerPC core development in favour of licensing cores from ARM.
- sanxiyn 9y agoCPU is NXP T208x, see https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/campaigns/electrical-schematics-notebook-powerpc-motherboard-donation-campaign/ https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/campaigns/electrical-schema... It has 4 cores of 1.8 GHz.