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Posted by keisangi on 2007/1/11 10:40:00 (3636 reads) News by the same author

Bassano del Grappa (Italy) 10/01/2007 - Alternative Holding Group, Soft 3 and Virtual Works created today ACube Systems Srl, a company born to take care of the production and commercialisation of the Sam440ep product line.

Sam440ep will be the first manufactured motherboard. The heart of Sam is the PowerPC 440, a System On Chip (SoC) made by AMCC under a licence from IBM.

The main characteristic of a SoC system is the presence, together with the CPU, of a number of integrated peripherals which allow to build a complete system with a huge savings of both development and debug time, with less components and space used on the PCB. This also results in a significant cost reduction for the customer.
As a consequence, the board doesn't need the classical northbridge / southbridge combination because a part of their functionalities are implemented in the CPU, and the balance is provided by other components and devices.
The availability is planned for the first quarter of 2007.
The new company will continue to do research and development for current projects for the embedded and desktop markets.
More news will be made available in the next weeks through the company website www.acube-systems.biz

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spotUP	Published: 2007/1/11 10:50 Updated: 2007/1/11 10:50
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Comments: 1492	Re: ACube Systems Cool!

sicky	Published: 2007/1/11 11:37 Updated: 2007/1/11 11:37
Not too shy to talk Joined: 12/03/2006 From: Essex, UK Comments: 418	Re: ACube Systems Excellent news that you are still on target, I would like to take this opportunity to say that we at Total Amiga magazine are fully behind you and look forward to reviewing this product

Jurassicc	Published: 2007/1/11 11:51 Updated: 2007/1/11 11:51
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/27/2006 From: Somerset, UK Comments: 358	Re: ACube Systems @sicky Good stuff.

wolfe	Published: 2007/1/11 11:56 Updated: 2007/1/11 11:56
Just popping in Joined: 01/03/2007 From: Comments: 34	Re: ACube Systems I want one . . . . But when?

klesterjr	Published: 2007/1/11 11:57 Updated: 2007/1/11 11:57
Illusionist Joined: 11/29/2006 From: Comments: 419	Re: ACube Systems Things are progressing very fast!

derfs	Published: 2007/1/11 12:01 Updated: 2007/1/11 12:08
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/27/2006 From: UK Comments: 300	Re: ACube Systems good news! can we edit the link so we remove the last '.' though Editied Thanks for pointing that out Outcast

Skov	Published: 2007/1/11 12:06 Updated: 2007/1/11 12:06
Just popping in Joined: 12/01/2006 From: Odense, Denmark Comments: 221	Re: ACube Systems All we need now is an officiel OS4 licence announcement and there'll be bananas all over the place

Jurassicc	Published: 2007/1/11 12:42 Updated: 2007/1/11 12:42
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/27/2006 From: Somerset, UK Comments: 358	Re: ACube Systems @Sister_Rita Maybe you can upgrade that creaky old Amiga 500 you have.

MichaelMerkel	Published: 2007/1/11 14:17 Updated: 2007/1/11 14:17
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/27/2006 From: Germany Comments: 327	Re: ACube Systems nothing new then except a new name? or do i miss something? unfortunately amiga/os4 is not mentioned and the new homepage is not up yet. let's still hope the best to get these things resolved. byebye...

jahc	Published: 2007/1/11 15:24 Updated: 2007/1/11 15:24
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/22/2006 From: Comments: 415	Re: ACube Systems Quote: nothing new then except a new name? or do i miss something? The other information that I got from this news item, is that they're still on schedule. Remember around October that they stated a desired 1Q 2007 release? well, its 2-3 months later, and after a long period of silence this "estimated availability" date hasnt changed. Thats cause for a mini celebration, given that all other hardware makers (for os4) are experiencing delays. Amiga Inc paid Hyperion to do a port to an older AMCC chip, the 403EP I think it was. This was the previous generation of the chip that Samantha uses. I wonder if much of that work can be used in the Sam440EP OS4 port? The drivers for the SATA, sound and graphics already exist as I understand it.

mr2	Published: 2007/1/11 15:47 Updated: 2007/1/11 15:47
Not too shy to talk Joined: 12/02/2006 From: Poland Comments: 399	Re: ACube Systems OK, nice ...but more info would be nicer - working prototype (not reference board but SAM)? - OS4 licence? - working OS4? - are all tests done?

ssolie	Published: 2007/1/11 16:55 Updated: 2007/1/11 16:55
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Canada Comments: 986	Re: ACube Systems A step in the right direction. Best of luck!

LiveForIt	Published: 2007/1/11 17:18 Updated: 2007/1/11 17:18
Home away from home Joined: 11/20/2006 From: Norway Comments: 3909	Re: ACube Systems The fact that they established a new company really shows how committed they are to make this work, good for them. My understanding is that they need to cut cost on board, removing some layers and stuff not needed for OS4 community, to make this a really selling product.

ikir	Published: 2007/1/12 10:23 Updated: 2007/1/12 10:23
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/27/2006 From: SYS:Prefs/ Comments: 374	Re: ACube Systems Keep rocking! We are waiting for the next big news

gdg	Published: 2007/1/12 11:30 Updated: 2007/1/12 11:30
Just popping in Joined: 12/04/2006 From: Comments: 4	Re: ACube Systems Quote: My understanding is that they need to cut cost on board, removing some layers and stuff not needed for OS4 community, to make this a really selling product. Should they? This board is mainly aimed at the embedded market and it is nearly perfect for its purpose.

Rudei	Published: 2007/1/12 20:45 Updated: 2007/1/12 20:45
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/24/2006 From: Comments: 460	Re: ACube Systems It needs some work on the English translation but the site looks pretty good. Da Rude!

Raziel	Published: 2007/1/13 17:44 Updated: 2007/1/13 17:44
Home away from home Joined: 11/26/2006 From: a dying planet Comments: 5622	Re: ACube Systems Yeah...train's running again, great