http://a-eon.com/6.html

Article and "robust" discussion (with some apparently prerequisite baiting of Amiga fanboys) here:
http://www.osnews.com/story/22693/New_Amiga_Sports_Programmable_Co-Processor_Dualcore_PPC
http://www.osnews.com/comments/22693?view=nested&perpage=15&order=o&sort=&threshold=0

The processor is a dual core PowerPC. It could be interesting, but PPC is nothing revolutionary. What *is* new is the co-processor, which seems to be a programmable array of integer processing cores. While PPC processors are usually not strong on floating point, and the XMOS chip is integer only, it could still show promise.