Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th May 2007 23:03 UTC
ACK has pretty much confirmed that their high-end Amiga system will use PA Semi chips. In an IRC session, Adam of ACK replied to the question how ACK was going to build a system faster than anything Apple ever produced on the PPC side: "Think PA Semi quad-core chips." Adam also said ACK started talks with PA Semi about a year ago, while also promising specifications of the high-end system to be released coming Monday.
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2005-09-28
A lot of the reverse engineering has already been done in order to get Linux up and running on PPC macs.
I don't think there would be many people who would be willing to pay for expensive custom hardware and yet wouldn't be willing to grab an old PPC Mac from ebay to run it. At least that hardware would be capable run Classic/OSX+ a well tested and supported set of Linux dists in addition to Amiga.
I don't see how it "easier" to custom design some hardware as opposed to porting to an existing stable, cheap and fairly well understood platform.